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no i can't save the world

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.06.30

Today I was waiting at the corner for some traffic, when the woman standing next to me said something I didn't catch. I asked her "pardon me?" and she demanded - in a "streetcrazy" kind of way - "Do you think you can save the world like that?!"

To which I had to be honest. "Nope," I said, and tried to put a brave face on it.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009