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seaver: i understand the situation you outline, believe me. i am in a version of the same space, though from a position well to the left of yours.
at some points i have learned stuff here---and on a couple matters have altered positions (on gun control, for example, coming to accept how different positions on the matter can be for folk depending on where they live)----but that phase of forum discussion seems to be falling further and further into the past. i dont know if it is a turnover in the composition of the board or if i am just kinda slow and it has always been this way and i only noticed over the summer. it's hard to tell, but the situation in the present is the same either way.
for what it's worth, i dont bother hating bush---i oppose him politically---i oppose everything he stands for--but i dont hate the guy....it is a patronizing characterization of the opposition, to say that it is motivated by "hatred"---it only functions as consolation for the conservative set....this consolation appears to follow from a trivializing of all positions not comensurate with their own. i dont see the point of that move--and i think you see its consequences in places like this.
the things i might be interested in discussing with reference to canada have nothing to do with national health, really--i am not sure they are political even--stuff like the state sponsorship of the arts and its (largely positive from what i have heard of it) effects on music production---the cultural scene in montreal---etc.
backing out of this and off into an altogether too busy day i am.
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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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