24 Aug 2004
Fear Itself

This is some of the finest writing I've had the pleasure to preuse lately. Personal, disturbing and poignant: the author embarks on a "terror tour", trying to discover the myrid ways that humans cope with the continual low grade fear created by living in the Age of Terrorism. Required reading.

So here's a question: Would you ride a bus in Jerusalem? Right now? Here's your 5 1/2 shekels, go take a bus to market, buy some figs. Pick a bad day, after the Israelis have assassinated some terrorist leaders and everyone is waiting for the second sandal to drop. There are lots of buses in Jerusalem -- the odds are still long in your favor. Do you take that dare?

(link) [The Washington Post]

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