So, Wisconsin will be teaching creationism and US soldiers are getting pumped up with prayer before they enter Fallujah to kill the barbarians and philistines. You know, those evildoers who run hospitals. By all means what we need is more sense of our own righteouness and more disdain for those strange heathens who don't seem to want us to liberate them.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
