Terror and the Isolation of the Academy
It has been a surprise to me in these last few days to read talk of grocery stores in Washington DC that are packed with people who want to buy duct tape to seal their windows in case of biological and chemical attack. My hometown paper has a story today about how one is far more likely to die of disease than terrorist attack. Even my university's provost released a statement to assure us that there were plans in place in case of terrorist attack.
Yet no one I know is jumpy. No one I know is at all worried about what may come. Their fears are their midterms. Their anxieties surround papers and reading long left undone.
It is has been a privilege to be so sheltered from the woes and worries of the world.
P.S. That is not to say that all is well. Midterms are draining everyone in body and spirit. Many are getting sick and discouraged. When one is manumitted, there is always someone to put new chains on you.
ESA (20030214.1)
It has been a surprise to me in these last few days to read talk of grocery stores in Washington DC that are packed with people who want to buy duct tape to seal their windows in case of biological and chemical attack. My hometown paper has a story today about how one is far more likely to die of disease than terrorist attack. Even my university's provost released a statement to assure us that there were plans in place in case of terrorist attack.
Yet no one I know is jumpy. No one I know is at all worried about what may come. Their fears are their midterms. Their anxieties surround papers and reading long left undone.
It is has been a privilege to be so sheltered from the woes and worries of the world.
P.S. That is not to say that all is well. Midterms are draining everyone in body and spirit. Many are getting sick and discouraged. When one is manumitted, there is always someone to put new chains on you.
ESA (20030214.1)
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