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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2003-03-23 11:53 pm

anne...?

salon.com book review here: bush is an idiot, but he was right about saddam.

[livejournal.com profile] nemoricultrix, could you get me the text? ::pitiful look::

and... what do you (all of you) think?

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2003-03-24 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
i don't mean the religious apocalypse, just the eventual destruction of all or most of human life. it seems inevitable, not because of any sort of deity or anything, but because of human stupidity, and the entropy of the universe and whatnot. and mostly i think of it in terms of rather abstract speculation, as an sf writer and reader. as for towns in the middle of nowhere in america--probably safe from terrorist attack or war for now, bbut who's going to remain safe from our own government for long, when the McCarthyism is starting all over again and the security bills in the senate are trying to authorize secret arrests?

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[identity profile] ex-thewayout304.livejournal.com 2003-03-24 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
even if we dont end up killing ourselves out, our sun will explode eventually. then where will we be? i suppose it goes back to what you said about survivors, sci fi and all that. i love my country in a "constitional convention, life liberty and pursit of happiness" kinda way, but lets face it, we're a country governed by people who cant help their fallacies. where can you go to be safe from that? britian? australia? finland/new zealand? i dont know if it can be done.

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[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2003-03-24 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
sure, people everywhere have fallacies. but it's not so VERY often that by a huge mess of coincidences a bunch of them come together to place a country in the throes of early-stage fascism.

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[identity profile] ex-thewayout304.livejournal.com 2003-03-24 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
point. game: cim.

but, hey. election year next year.

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[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2003-03-25 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
i suppose i need to register and whatnot. and then i'll have to vote by mail. excitement!