I finished writing the thing, anyway!

Now, time for a bath.

Then, to pick up leaflets and run them all over town! Fancy shiney leaflets.

Ah, scut work.

I enoyed the essay, if only because of the intellectual work-out.(doing mind-numbing things at work at the mo!)
For those wondering why Gitmo is acceptable to a majority, or just passively tolerated, here's a little snippet

"Democracy is a form of government which fits very different types of society (this holds true even for a democracy with universal suffrage and equality before the law), and the human costs of a democracy are always and everywhere those exacted by the society whose government it is. Their range extends all the way from normal exploitation, poverty, and insecurity to the victims of wars, police actions, military aid, etc., in which the society is engaged--and not only to the victims within its own frontiers. These considerations can never justify the exacting of different sacrifices and different victims on behalf of a future better society, but they do allow weighing the costs involved in the perpetuation of an existing society against the risk of promoting alternatives which offer a reasonable chance of pacification and liberation.

What a coincidence! I was just thinking that I need to read Marcuse. Thanks! :)

I've only read Eros & Civ. Good times.