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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you." – William Blake (1757-1827) from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Thursday 14 April 2011
Monday 4 April 2011
A Portend of Things Come
Debates that have raged in recent times (which in many ways are a sign of the times), arising out of what has been dubbed the global war on terror, raise many important questions. Included in this are themes and subject matters that we do propose to raise for discussion at a future date - using this blog as a forum for precisely such a debate.
What we have in mind generally boils down to notions about Freedom, the terrorism threat, what it means to live in a safe and secure environment, issues of press freedom and the role of the state - all matters and concerns that are crying out for modern definitions.
For the time being however we will limit our observations to the following illustration (re-blogged from Buzzfeed and FuckYeahAlbuquerque).
What we have in mind generally boils down to notions about Freedom, the terrorism threat, what it means to live in a safe and secure environment, issues of press freedom and the role of the state - all matters and concerns that are crying out for modern definitions.
For the time being however we will limit our observations to the following illustration (re-blogged from Buzzfeed and FuckYeahAlbuquerque).
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