Steam & Sensibility
This is from an email I sent to aurora and her response. Its really right-on so at the risk of violating her privacy, I'm posting it.
From: "justin aleph"
To: Aurora
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:19:49 -0500
aurora,
been listening to the radio all morning. I'm so pissed at Bush and the fucking Republicans. this whole disaster in N.O. was totally preventable if levee rebuilding projects hadn't had their funding cut.
the media will roll over and act like it was a disaster no one could help, Bush will get a free ride once again, and the gulf will be poisoned for the next 10 years. I'm disgusted. They're taking officers off search and rescue missions to go police looters. property is more important than people.
I've been talking with Dan this morning. he says if he was 20 years younger he would move to Canada. they're going to teach creationism right next to evolution in the schools. countrys going bankrupt. gas is 5 bucks a gallon in atlanta right now. when are people going to wake the fuck up and realize the country is getting driven into the gutter by this gang of reckless plutocrats?
care to emigrate? lets get outta here.
-j
Re:
Justin,
All of the death and destruction is overwhelming. This morning, within a period of 5 minutes of NPR radio, I heard about dead bodies floating down city streets in Louisiana and 900 people dieing in a massive stampede at a mosque in iraq.
All of this makes me want to drive less and do more. I don't think that immigration is the answer though. I say, do good work here. Use the beauty that is flying all around us at any given moment, and make something. Sure, it's good to go away for a while... a few months or a couple years... but there is so much to be done here. I don't think this country has ever NEEDED art, activism, and idealism MORE than it does right now. If all the creative people leave, what will be left? A wasteland of corporate high-rises, box stores and gas stations that charge $15/ gallon.
Let's make beautiful things this weekend... and get allot done. Let's go on bike rides and plan out the first pod cast. Our recorder will be here on tuesday and I want to get started as soon as it arrives.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I share your sense of despair and dissolution... I do think this means that honest, true work is more more valuable now than ever.
Love, Aurora
From: "justin aleph"
To: Aurora
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:19:49 -0500
aurora,
been listening to the radio all morning. I'm so pissed at Bush and the fucking Republicans. this whole disaster in N.O. was totally preventable if levee rebuilding projects hadn't had their funding cut.
the media will roll over and act like it was a disaster no one could help, Bush will get a free ride once again, and the gulf will be poisoned for the next 10 years. I'm disgusted. They're taking officers off search and rescue missions to go police looters. property is more important than people.
I've been talking with Dan this morning. he says if he was 20 years younger he would move to Canada. they're going to teach creationism right next to evolution in the schools. countrys going bankrupt. gas is 5 bucks a gallon in atlanta right now. when are people going to wake the fuck up and realize the country is getting driven into the gutter by this gang of reckless plutocrats?
care to emigrate? lets get outta here.
-j
Re:
Justin,
All of the death and destruction is overwhelming. This morning, within a period of 5 minutes of NPR radio, I heard about dead bodies floating down city streets in Louisiana and 900 people dieing in a massive stampede at a mosque in iraq.
All of this makes me want to drive less and do more. I don't think that immigration is the answer though. I say, do good work here. Use the beauty that is flying all around us at any given moment, and make something. Sure, it's good to go away for a while... a few months or a couple years... but there is so much to be done here. I don't think this country has ever NEEDED art, activism, and idealism MORE than it does right now. If all the creative people leave, what will be left? A wasteland of corporate high-rises, box stores and gas stations that charge $15/ gallon.
Let's make beautiful things this weekend... and get allot done. Let's go on bike rides and plan out the first pod cast. Our recorder will be here on tuesday and I want to get started as soon as it arrives.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I share your sense of despair and dissolution... I do think this means that honest, true work is more more valuable now than ever.
Love, Aurora
posted by justin at 9:19 AM
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