[This was originally posted in 2008 on my LiveJournal] For all the posturing and pontificating of the politicians in charge of things, you'd think the world was an infinitely safer place (thought not quite yet safe enough for us to actually feel safe, mind you--still have to keep spending all that money and adding new measures for our own safety, y'know). The simple fact is: it isn't. If anything, we're in more actual danger now than we were before. As economic times get tough--as that belt tightens and the challenge of putting food on the table spreads to more and more citizens who were used to being pretty OK gets added to all the other stresses of modern life--friction among the classes heats up. Add to that the still increasing rhetoric about unseen enemies and how our own political parties (whichever one the speaker isn't part of) are just out for … Continue reading →