I find I do like the late nights...just my cat Tank (he is rocking a lion cut!) and my kindle. Amazing how safe I feel when no one else is around, and it's not like I have anything to fear, but there it is--safety in aloneness!
I'm reading Lou Cannon's "Official Negligence" about the LA riots after the Rodney King trial. What an incredible time for the U.S. You would think that after the civil rights movement, racial tension would be minimized, but in fact it is still brewing just below the surface of this seeming quiet...even now in 2011. Couple that with the growing outcry of LGBT people wanting some acceptance and rights and the mix grows even more turbulent. Maybe it's something we can never fix. Someone will always be subjugated by someone else.
It calls to mind that movie "Gattaca" with Ethan Hawke and Jude Law. The future in that movie certainly saw every racial and ethnic prejudice defeated, only to be replaced with genetic prejudice..deGENEerates..I did love that word when they used it. I suppose it is a zero sum game, with the rise of one part of the population necessitating the decline of another.
I need to find something to do this summer...a reason to get up every morning. Maybe volunteer somewhere, give something back instead of just talking about it.
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