I don't know what to do. I can't concentrate on anything, not even my book when I was trying to read at a cafe this morning. I'm completely immobilized. What am I going to do?
"Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity." - from Herzog
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What they really think. From Dutch magazine Trouw, as posted on signandsight.com, European Feuilletons:
Trouw dedicates its culture section to "The power of the image." There's a excerpt from Al Gore's new book, "Assault on Reason" as well as a pointed critique of it by Henri Beunders, a history professor from Rotterdam. "An American book must naturally have an alarming beginning and an optimistic end, otherwise it won't sell. His understanding of 'the old media' is just as narrow as his grasp of the Internet is naive. He writes, 'Web democracy is arming itself. You can feel it. We, the people, are still the key to the survival of democracy in America.' What naivety! As if 'the people' always want what's best. In 1914, 1982 (the Falklands War) and 1991 (the Gulf War) 'the people' marched joyfully into war. In the thirties the Germans begged Hitler: 'Free us from freedom.'"
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What are you going to do? The same thing all the rest of us do. Get up in the morning. Eat Cheerios. Determine how to make the best of the day. Sing. Wash some clothes. Smile at a stranger on the sidewalk. Work hard. Play hard. Swim. Treat yourself to cake. Push self-pity off the balcony. Smile. Thank God for another day. Believe. Hope. Live.
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