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Re: Various things
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Sweet & Tender Hooligan wrote:
> You know, I'm finding this to be the most difficult thing of all. How
> can I go about my regular routine, that mundane morning grind: coffee,
> data, reports, filing, phone calls, status evaluations, nothing,
> nothing, NOTHING, NOTHING. It's always felt meaningless and hollow, but
> now, with thousands of my fellow countrymen dead, wounded and suffering,
> with my country on the brink of war, with the entire template of
> American culture shifting, this meaningless money-making machine feels
> worse than hollow. It almost feels immoral. I shouldn't be focusing my
> energies on this irrelevant shit right now.
>
> But what can one do?
Thing is, that's exactly what the terrorists *want* you to think. They
want to stop the country dead in its tracks, and for that reason alone, if
no other reason, it's important to keep doing all the mundane stuff.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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