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Sep. 14th, 2001 05:54 pmLong week, my weekend is starting and I am going to relax for a while.
I'm drowning in information and opinion, distrusting both, waiting for the truth that can only be found through the perspective of time. It isn't coming fast enough, but then, no one made me Guardian of Chronos. I wonder how I will look to myself after time, what my personal opinions recorded in this journal may tell a future me in a future world.
I'm weary of knee-jerk idealism. The barely literate grunts for revenge from the war-hawks are equal to the "pacifism uber alles" visciousness from the doves. The thoughtlessness of reflex panaceas would disturb me if it weren't so obvious both camps are really the minority in numbers (though obviously not in volume).
I have four rules of life. My number one rule, my guiding principle of morality, is idealistic in its cynicism, but then, that may just be a reflection of me: "There is a difference between the way things should be, and the way things are."
My optimism is this...may this be the worst thing to come to pass: I wonder that the rest of the world is in for a long, grueling haul. Not in violence or terror, but in a sharp increase in gagging American rhetoric, self centered American moralism, and force-fed American patriotism. We've been in-your-face to the rest of the world for too long already, as have been our predecessors in world power in times past, Britain, France, and Spain. I wish it weren't so...but...*shrug*...there you are.
I'm drowning in information and opinion, distrusting both, waiting for the truth that can only be found through the perspective of time. It isn't coming fast enough, but then, no one made me Guardian of Chronos. I wonder how I will look to myself after time, what my personal opinions recorded in this journal may tell a future me in a future world.
I'm weary of knee-jerk idealism. The barely literate grunts for revenge from the war-hawks are equal to the "pacifism uber alles" visciousness from the doves. The thoughtlessness of reflex panaceas would disturb me if it weren't so obvious both camps are really the minority in numbers (though obviously not in volume).
I have four rules of life. My number one rule, my guiding principle of morality, is idealistic in its cynicism, but then, that may just be a reflection of me: "There is a difference between the way things should be, and the way things are."
My optimism is this...may this be the worst thing to come to pass: I wonder that the rest of the world is in for a long, grueling haul. Not in violence or terror, but in a sharp increase in gagging American rhetoric, self centered American moralism, and force-fed American patriotism. We've been in-your-face to the rest of the world for too long already, as have been our predecessors in world power in times past, Britain, France, and Spain. I wish it weren't so...but...*shrug*...there you are.
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