the modern guide...better lies
Friday, November 7, 2008
... a modern guide to Barack Obama
Three days after the event and the world seems still to be on a high after - as someone put it - "the USA decided to be cool again".
I'm not American but I don't think it ever lost its cool - just let its mojo slip for a while.
When Barack Obama was making his acceptance speech I felt tears well up in my eyes , it was pride in being human , it was knowledge that the collective was working and it was an overwhelming sense of belief in one person that I haven't had since I was a kid.
And it's that simple promise he's making , the same one a parent makes to their child - I'll keep you safe and sound and build you a future.
It's post modern. Its after all the greed and bullshit and wars and jealousies and tantrums, lets see if we can make this work the other way. The way we've forgotten or abandoned or wrote off because it was too soft or not smart or too simple. From "Its about me not them" to "Its about Us."
People will snear at this naivety.
But you know what? - The hairs on your neck stand up for a reason.
It's the Morning Town Ride....
"Maybe it is raining where our train will ride,
But all the little travelers are snug and warm inside.
Somewhere there is sunshine, somewhere there is day,
Somewhere there is Morningtown, many miles away."
It's Barack Obama ....
...and it's the true beginning of the Twenty First Century.
I'm not American but I don't think it ever lost its cool - just let its mojo slip for a while.
When Barack Obama was making his acceptance speech I felt tears well up in my eyes , it was pride in being human , it was knowledge that the collective was working and it was an overwhelming sense of belief in one person that I haven't had since I was a kid.
And it's that simple promise he's making , the same one a parent makes to their child - I'll keep you safe and sound and build you a future.
It's post modern. Its after all the greed and bullshit and wars and jealousies and tantrums, lets see if we can make this work the other way. The way we've forgotten or abandoned or wrote off because it was too soft or not smart or too simple. From "Its about me not them" to "Its about Us."
People will snear at this naivety.
But you know what? - The hairs on your neck stand up for a reason.
It's the Morning Town Ride....
"Maybe it is raining where our train will ride,
But all the little travelers are snug and warm inside.
Somewhere there is sunshine, somewhere there is day,
Somewhere there is Morningtown, many miles away."
It's Barack Obama ....
...and it's the true beginning of the Twenty First Century.
posted by the modern guide # Friday, November 07, 2008 
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