...or the Death Knell of Democracy

11 Fructidor 2007

There are several whom are far more qualified to engage with such a complex set of issues which today's date conjures. For those interested in transcending the static conversations yearly reproduced without much thought or real sentiment Slavoj Zizek's Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism and even Michael Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy should be interesting starting points. What is the relationship between all those supposed democrats who issued the British Mandate of Palestine on this date in 1922 or those who overthrew Salvador Allende on this date in 1973? Or even those most virtuous of democrats as Maximilien Robespierre or John Brown? While mourning is most appropriate, the spring of the victim did not dawn on September 11, 2001.