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Story of the month ...

January 2009: There was no story of the month that I personally was told or witnessed. Or were there too many? January 2009, a historic months when many significant events happened and much changed. Many stories were told all over the web, the media. What most impressed me in January 2009 was the inauguration speech of the new President of the United States. This speech was a demonstration of the way in which one can criticize the past by describing the desired present and future in clear words - without even mentioning the past explicitly ones. Take, for example: "We will restore science to its rightful place." Is there any better way to express that in the recent past, science did not have its appropriate place in our society? Another example: "We cannot compromise our values for safety." Again, is there any more powerful way to confront us with the fact that we have compromised our values in the irrational quest for absolute safety. Almost every sentence in the speech has such a deep powerful meaning: each describing how we can reach to a better world by acting according to our vision, not reacting to the visions of others, by reaching for what we 'want', not by opposing what others do.

In such a month of epic events, any story I could have written would not have added much to the choir of our society.


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