wow... i finally watched Fahrenheit 9/11 (dvd from the library). i am both angry and sad at the same time. anger at certain people, sadness for the dead and wounded, and frustration that the people with the power and the money can lie and cheat and kill their way to get, what, more power and money? and what can be done about it? i wonder, is the world--will the world always be like this? in spite of our medical, dental, technological advances, are we really no better than we were five thousand years ago?

i can think of several methods to approach this question: one is the cycle. perhaps history is an endless cycle of bloodshed and then relative quietude. this would fall under the world-is-always-the-same theory. or maybe we should look at it quantitatively. maybe the percentage of people being brutally murdered has varied over time and has decreased over the past several millenia. that would be an encouraging sign. or perhaps we shouldn't be so negative, and we should look at all the good things that people do.

meanwhile i'll just muddle along best i can.