but god forbid i offend anyone 



does anyone doubt the power of comics now?

and i ask again, as i have for four years, four months, twenty-six days: can the 7th century and the 21st century coexist on the same planet? under what circumstances will the former understand or accept that the latter isn't the byzantine empire, waiting for a conquerer and a new god? under what circumstances will the latter suddenly perceive a threat? what will happen?

steven den beste once wrote that even if europe quietly folds its hands and bows its neck to the yoke, even if america implodes or in the name of multiculturality accepts suitcase nukes in every city--still, russia, still china, still in the end japan would use whatever means they had to hand (o, and see 1945-1990 for that,) to survive, and even if they did not, there is a dark and terrible split inside of islam--sunni/shi'ite, and both of them are reaching for the nuclear gun, and hate each other nigh well as much as they hate the jew and the decadence of the west.

the world is walking along naively in the summer of 1914, and it's been a long summer . . . four years so far, and counting. gabrilo princip hesitated in an alley, rubbing his gun anxiously. an irresponsible danish paper did the same. a new world is coming, if we are not careful, and we don't know yet what it will look like.

with luck, the world will roll over and turn it all back to the cockroaches and the rats.











as e-nough says, 'wake up whenever you want, europeans.' 

Posted: Sun - February 5, 2006 at 09:25 AM             |

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