More Reflections on Turkey
Istanbul continually celebrates Europe and Asia, past and present, sacred and secular...
It is hard to imagine that such a place can exist, here in the Land of Burger-Death and Endless Imperialist War, of what Tolstoy rightly called "stupefication." To spend a month in a place that honors traditional modes of conviviality while embracing modern conveniences and inconveniences is to see a future beyond anything that the self-anesthetized in the U.S. can ever imagine.
We have already been surpassed by our cultural superiors. It is only a matter of time before we arrive at the station to see the caboose of the train that passed us by fading into the distance. The little glorious run of the Evening Lands (the last 500 years) is all but finished. Bankrupt. Exhausted. Only the fire-works remain...
It is hard to imagine that such a place can exist, here in the Land of Burger-Death and Endless Imperialist War, of what Tolstoy rightly called "stupefication." To spend a month in a place that honors traditional modes of conviviality while embracing modern conveniences and inconveniences is to see a future beyond anything that the self-anesthetized in the U.S. can ever imagine.
We have already been surpassed by our cultural superiors. It is only a matter of time before we arrive at the station to see the caboose of the train that passed us by fading into the distance. The little glorious run of the Evening Lands (the last 500 years) is all but finished. Bankrupt. Exhausted. Only the fire-works remain...
posted by Sidi Hamid Benengeli | 11:29 AM
2 Comments:
In a related note, I humbly submit:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1218-24.htm
Wonderful.
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