If history has a form, this form contains a motion toward turning war into annihilation; and also a motion that halts any tribal boundary for long. But it is foolish to strip Plain folks of tribal thought without solid social grounding and this is how our futuristic world has grown so hazardous: dualisms swarm in.


"Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience..." --Susan Sontag, R*garding th* Pain of Oth*rs (2003)