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Introducing the Sunoasis
Literary Blong with comments, observations, links, and assorted fits
and starts. What is a Blong? It's what writers who respect the art of writing write.
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"It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams
I bought a book as a kid, I must have been nine or ten, and I was with my dad in a bookstore
in San Francisco. The book was Volume Four of a history of Rome, "Roman Supremacy," published
in 1939.
The Oxford professor, Hugh Last, wrote a chapter on, "A Roman Citizen Surveys The World," and
concludes with these words.
He's summing up the decline of the Empire and some lessons to draw. "Barbarian
attacks on the frontiers and a consequent increase in the tax-gatherer's demands
forced the emperors' hands to measures which in the end were disastrous. But from
the tale there emerge two lessons which are clear..."
Read on
Go Read The War on Terrorism
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The poet, now up to speed, spoke in the empty park in front of the
hypothetical citizen, "Oh you
tribe of powerful men and women sequestered in the old mansions of power;
the machinery driving through you
is transparent and old.
The people smell decay on their way to games."
Read on.
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The internet is a peculiar mass medium. It moves in a collective fashion, like a tsunami,
and yet is dotted with absolutely startling new things. In its collective mode it is like
radio and TV. Every decade and every generation will see enormous change.
Today is fated to be laughed at in the future. A precious view legacies remain from 50's television;
everything else becomes subject to scorn and criticism.
The Net will experience this. Underneath the heaving snake however are grains of sand that
hold eternities. These are vastly more important and interesting than Yahoo, Craigslist,
Google, or a host of infamous internet players.
Read on
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