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Thu 22 Oct, 2009 06:44 am
Quote:Historians might come to view the first decade of the 21st century as an exercise in terrible distraction: our overriding concern should have been climate change. But they might also decide that this was the period in which US power was displayed at its most extravagant, reckless and deadly " just before it began to wane.
How should we understand the meaning of "an exercise in terrible distraction" in this local context?
Historians might come to view the first decade of the 21st century as a time when people were not paying attention to real issues . . .
Michael Jackson's death generated much more discussion and controversy than the fate of the planet.
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