16 October, 2005

Hello, America

Hello, America. You fancy yourself the proudest member of the First World, and since you're reading this on your computer, you probably are.

Got air-conditioning? Cable TV? A microwave? Congratulations, citizen, you're doing just fine. But, as some of you are learning, uncomfortably, there's another America, the Third World version.

Dark and brutal, dimly lit by a faint flickering American Dream high up and far away. That's where I come from. What would Jesus say about that?

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