’Tis in your hearts, mate. ‘Tis in your hearts.
But seriously, where did the Sleeper Cell go? someone asked today.
This was the reply:
It’s not so much whether I blog at TI, but whether I blog at all. Maybe three or four times in the last four months I’ve thought of posting a short comment or entry, but I feel like “everyone’s watching” so I have to get my ducks in a row first, you know what I mean?
Take yesterday, when I read an article from the Associated Press about how Iraqis still don’t have clean drinking water, and the AP journo went out of his way to implicate Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran 30 years ago as the cause of this. WTF? Everyone knows the waste water purification system was deliberately destroyed by the U.S. in 1990 and the parts needed to fix it were repeatedly denied to Iraq by US and UK vetoes in the UN Security Council. A brilliant article written by a philosophy prof in Harper’s Nov 2002 issue explained this in some detail.
But I don’t have that article with me, so I’m just making an oblique reference to something without all the billion hyperlinks that bloggers are so fond of. Do people still read Harper’s, or “traditional” magazines as such? Am I too old and fuddy-duddyish in this warp-speed world for your TI readers?
Dunno why I awoke today and wondered what I’m doing with my life. Being a doctor is tremendously unfulfilling. I wish there were a quest or a mission with lofty goals I could pursue. Who’s with me?
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So that was the reply. Perhaps I should have established some rapport with my audience, built up some street cred before posting such an intimately paranoid comment like this. (Even my first post in the heady days of November 2008 was eerily paranoid and self-conscious.)
Sleeper Cell is going to resume his nap now. G’night.
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