As much as I may have avoided discussing politics on these pages, it may simply not be possible to avoid such ideas in context with the current topic of the day. I think a great place to start is some of the things I remember form September 11, 2001. One thing I remember was that I happened to notice above the fold on the New York Times, was an article about how president Bush’s huge tax cut which he promissed to implement had been passed.
I remember thinking how this would undue all of the work of the previous administration. I remember back then the US used to be concerned about the record deficits and how bad this was for the US economy etc. I also remember building my very first web site.
The internet was a much smaller universe back then. However it was filled with so many “free” downloads. Often these free downloads would effect your computer in a negative way. For example I remember this one aligator icon would leap up and snap at your cursor every time you tried to close the icon in the tray! For old time sake, I am enclosing some quotes with links back to my old web site. The site had actually been taken down due to some administrative oversight, but after several e-mails back and forth to its host, I was able to get them to restore the domain:
http://tiger_bythe_toe.tripod.com/
One of the things I have learned is sometimes one should ask for what they need.
Today too many of us live life like the flock. There is no sharing in the flock, and constant pushing and shoving. From the little research I have already done on Chekhov, he was greatly concerned about the rights of man, as mentioned in The Seagull. My personal belief is that there is no shortage of wealth in this nation, as well as in the world. Political theorists would have us believe that the economy of our country has taken a major downturn simply because perhaps a handful of the wealthiest have lost a few poorly placed bets on the great economic roulette wheel of “high tech stocks”. Our nation’s leader would now have you believe the same “voodoo economy” nonsense that his party predecessors have promoted. Many armchair critics have already sited the president’s agenda as nothing short of class war. I suppose I could go on with this thread but do not want alienate too many of my potential readers. One might wonder how Chekhov might have discussed the problems that plagued his country in his day…
http://tiger_bythe_toe.tripod.com/seagull3.html
However that was not how my article (website) started at all. It is simply hard to ignore the real politics of what is happening right in your own backyard. My website was really a literary analysis of:
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, performed on Saturday August 18, 2001, at The Joseph Papp Public Theater in Central Park, New York, NY Written, edited and coded into HTML by Stephen C. Sanders copyright © 2001