If I have bid you “Rise,
and make all human haste!”
I really must apologize
(for such a human waste),
then turn a Father’s cheek.
I was surprised
to find at such accomplished heights
(however bright and vanishing)
the headway of my Earthly Tribe — columbia crew

Fear can short-circuit freedom. From Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of civil liberties during the Civil War to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II to the McCarthyism of the 1950s, our nation sometimes has lost sight of its commitment to freedom. Fear does that. Little wonder, then, that security concerns and civil liberties have been both discussed and debated since the terrorist attacks of September 11. Is our society too free for its own good? Can we be free and safe? Are we willing to trade some personal freedoms for greater personal security? And how do we feel about the extensive rights contained in the First Amendment

Because modern societies are so large, bringing together people from widely varied backgrounds, value sets, beliefs and customs, they have given rise to universally subscribable cooperative systems for defining what things are. Labels, in other words. To participate in a society is to understand its labeling systems. And because large, modern societies have to accomodate such a broad spectrum of people, the labeling and identification systems such societies create necessarily demand that nearly everyone has to compromise some aspect of themselves in order to be accepted, and that some smaller number of people have to compromise significant aspects of themselves in order to be accepted. It is a bell curve. Enter the Web. Let’s now consider the effects of the very, very recent advent of the Internet on all of the above. Virtual Places created the opportunity for Virtual Persona

Irons gives his best performance on film (and, indeed, the best performance of the ’80s by anyone) as twin gynocologists who disintegrate after an actress disrupts the delicate balance of their relationship. Radiates a deep and numbing chill as it chronicles the descent of the twins into madness and drug-addiction, with peripheral horrors thrown off at random as a result. The absence of his signature flamboyant gore effects only proves that David Cronenberg

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“In a forest pitch dark, glows the tiniest spark…”

“…because love is other-concerned, has no hierarchy, and does not cherish self-vindication, having guidelines for intimate relationships seems necessary in the modern world; it seems people are falling “in” love “with” each other every minute… more

In Japan, the word anime is used to refer to all forms of animated film from around the world. While some anime is entirely hand-drawn, computer assisted animation techniques are, in recent years, quite common. Storylines are typically fictional; examples of anime representing most major genres of fiction exist. Anime is broadcast on television… more

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