A place for the perplexed: Part two
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by Emilio DeGrazia, 8/25/08 • Whitman, poet of democracy, urged us to be tolerant and large, to contain multitudes, to connect and make passages to all parts of the globe. So it’s tempting to think boyishly big again—to be stirred by the democratic idealism of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism and to cheer on the new globalism. The technology to do so is at hand, literally. In the techno-moment of our current now how can I not be lured into cyberspace and the globalism it empowers? Continue Reading