Oil companies are already backing Bush on this war, and why wouldn't they? Like any corporation, they're just seeking maximum profit. Now the news networks all have multi-million dollar incentives to ensure a war. It seems like we're caught in a catch 22 here. Every company that suspects a war is going to happen and thus "invests" in it, adds to the economic inertia which will ensure that it does in fact proceed.
Well, the 5-7-5 is often adhered to in Japanese haiku, but as I understand it, the idea of the haiku is to express some thought with a certain sort of spontenaity. It's more about method than form. The idea is to be contemplating some idea, and then simply write the haiku immediately without deliberating about how to fit it into some arbitrary form. My understanding is that the 5-7-5 myth is akin to "Columbus discovered america" that I also learned in 4th grade -- it's so oversimplified that it is no longer strictly true.
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Oil companies are already backing Bush on this war, and why wouldn't they? Like any corporation, they're just seeking maximum profit. Now the news networks all have multi-million dollar incentives to ensure a war. It seems like we're caught in a catch 22 here. Every company that suspects a war is going to happen and thus "invests" in it, adds to the economic inertia which will ensure that it does in fact proceed.
Well, the 5-7-5 is often adhered to in Japanese haiku, but as I understand it, the idea of the haiku is to express some thought with a certain sort of spontenaity. It's more about method than form. The idea is to be contemplating some idea, and then simply write the haiku immediately without deliberating about how to fit it into some arbitrary form. My understanding is that the 5-7-5 myth is akin to "Columbus discovered america" that I also learned in 4th grade -- it's so oversimplified that it is no longer strictly true.