Mood: hoping that an emotionally and intellectually advanced, benign alien species will come and transport us all to their arcadian cyber-utopia and gently teach us all to be a bit less violent and stupid, but not, like in alien abduction cases, put things in our asses.
Music: a random series of spiritless 4 bit tones from a C64 emulator
Current reading:
Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
Dissent Magazine
Hmm. Concerned that this blog may have become impenetrable and alienating. If you came here to find out about my favourite colour or what I did last night whilst hanging tough with my homies, I apologise. Lighten up Talbot!
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The carnival of culture
Multiculturalism has to be a robust exchange of ideas, rather than of festivals and food
Hanif Kureishi
Thursday August 4, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1542252,00.html
"...I found these sessions so intellectually stultifying and claustrophobic that at the end I'd rush into the nearest pub and drink rapidly, wanting to reassure myself I was still in England. It is not only in the mosques but also in so-called "faith" schools that such ideas are propagated. The Blair government, while attempting to rid us of radical clerics, has pledged to set up more of these schools, as though a "moderate" closed system is completely different to an "extreme" one. This might suit Blair and Bush. A benighted, ignorant enemy, incapable of independent thought, and terrified of criticism, is easily patronised."
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