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I quite agree with you, Mona, it's very unhealthy when all one's human contacts are virtual and none are real. But what can I do? I have been living "between two worlds" for years : the vast bulk of my emotional investment is not here in Britain. It's a pretty dull country, with no real pretentions to creativity, originality or cultural independence. It took a serious turn for the worse when the Guardian newspaper caved in to our equivalent of your own 'neocon tendency in the Democratic Party' (I use the quote marks to bracket off the thing I want to compare, like in algebra). Our equivalent is something called "the Euston Group" which used exactly the same rhetoric, cumulatively blurring opposition to US imperialism, opposition to expansionist religious zionism, opposition to zionism as such, and anti-Semitism, all in the same toxic broth, which they then tipped over the heads of the remaining anti-imperialists in the Labor Party. In terms of domestic policy, and in terms of passive support for US imperialism, the Labor Party had always been pretty limp anyway, and I had never been a member, but my late sister was a member for decades, and she finally gave up on it some time in the nineties, over the Iraq war, if I remember correctly. There's nothing for me here, and I don't think I would like the USA much, either. Paradoxically, perhaps, I would much rather be in Israel, where at least people are lively, and have a slightly manic awareness that what they think and do can matter.
