the angel of the cross comes home

 
the world is make-believe.

everything we know of, we think we don't know of, we see, taste, or feel all do not exist.  and here would lie the part of an invented concrete experience to animate this abstraction. 

but nothing personal shall follow. 

the filipino captive in iraq has been freed.  this third world nation is rejoicing.  teenagers who finally muster the guts to break their curfews rejoice pretty much for the same reasons.  i am happy one life was saved.  i am sad that the rest of the world was not spared.  i am happy we were able to make a political statement.  i am sad that we shall soon face political complications, possibly incarnating in economic manifestations.   we are one as a nation.  now, let us watch as the terrorists take advantage of this weakness.

nobody won.  nobody ever wins.  this is proof enough. 

the world is make-believe.   

posted by carl @ 2:15 AM