[Industrialblog,
May 12, 2004]
What is going on in the world?
A friend e-mailed and, commenting on the both the Iraqi prison scandal and the beheading of Nick Berg, asked me, "What is going on in the world?"
I sent him this:
The last line is what I was trying to say in all my words in the last post.
I sent him this:
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered....And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. [Italics mine, duh.]
The last line is what I was trying to say in all my words in the last post.