Posted by zeugma on March 31, 2006, at 17:47:30
In reply to Re: nothing is true, posted by Declan on March 31, 2006, at 14:25:09
Suburbs are essentially mechanisms for the erasing of memory. (And our democracy here seems suburban.)
There was a Vietnam memorial in a suburb I once spent some time in, and it looked strange and garish, more like a monument to suburbia itself than to the fallen. Memorials in older places... there are such in the seedy northern suburbs of NYC, Colonial houses, Baltimore and Boston have houses that reflect British commerce, maritime houses where Sykes-Picot would have been dreamed up, had that deal been struck in the mid 18th century, though the houses themselves predate even that. and one feels that history is in the people who see these houses every day. Or maybe I just in a reverie..
In any case, President Bush has just offered earthquake aid to Iran, a form of diplomacy I thoroughly approve.
-z
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