Wednesday, November 5, 2008



Dear Jonas,

This is a quote from Uncle John Berger, who might argue that this election has produced a new "way of seeing": "Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable."

Little guy, you were born in the year of Obama. Now it is our job to teach you what that means. When Jesse Jackson described what happened yesterday as "ecstasy," he was pointing to the transformation of "what is and what it not desirable" this election has inaugurated. Si se puede. Yes we can. We are winning.