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one day, i went shopping for a bentley.
of course i had not way of actually buying the bentley--but i went shopping for it anyway. i was hoping for a test drive, i think.
following the logic of the article above on nuclear material, because i went shopping for a bentley, i could be argued to already secretly have a bentley, you never know.
it is obviously possible that i have a bentley.
it is obviously possible that bin laden has nuclear material.
i think my having a bentley would be as damaging to any sense of order in the universe as bin laden having a nuke, frankly.
luckily, i am in a position to not have a bentley for all kinds of reasons.
so it is also obvious that i do not have a bentley, and doubtful that bin laden has nuclear material.
but the possibility does function to inflate the status of al qaeda, and of bin laden by erasing the asymetry between the unted states and al qeada.
but frankly, if the americans--and the russians, and the chinese, and the other nuclear powers--were really worried about proliferation, all of them would have stopped developing nuclear weapons long ago.
which they could have done, just as easily as they continued to produce the weapons and materials.
i do not see much in the way of anxiety production that would seperate the possibility that bin laden might have nukes from the official strategies of mutually assured destruction from the cold war period.
everyone dies sooner or later.
i long ago resolved that if nuclear weapons were used in the states, i would smoke as much pot as possible and drive toward the flash.
the traffic would be light heading that way.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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