There is also an imperial grief. I hope humane people on this list will forgive me, in speculating whether this tragedy might do anything to knock Bush's imperial arrogance. The idea that the whole nation must go into mourning because it is shocking that 7 people trained for struggle might fall
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34303] Imperial grief
some quibbles/comments...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Chris Burford writes [about the Columbia tragedy]:
There is also an imperial grief. I hope humane people on this list
Jim Devine wrote:
call me a crude materialist, but it's not just a belief. It's also
the facts that (1) the US media find more to broadcast about national
events; (2) the event involved the US government, the most powerful in
the world; (3) it involved NASA, a government organization that
Excellent commentary, Carrol! Thank you.
I think the best commentary was written about 60 years ago -- Carrol
Deportee
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps.
You are flying them back to the Mexican border
To pay all
the astronauts had. Their families had not been prepared.
There is also an imperial grief. I hope humane people on this list will
forgive me, in speculating whether this tragedy might do anything to knock
Bush's imperial arrogance. The idea that the whole nation must go into
mourning because
