The Daily News

I look at the news and wonder what could the protagonists be thinking. Ariel Sharon, George Bush, Sadam Hussein. Are they just caught up in a conceptual universe that they confuse with the real one and by that confusion forget that they have a choice? Are they like most of the earth's inhabitants, just robots programmed to act according to pre-programmed cerebral constructs that dictate actions within a narrowly prescribed set of choices?

What is the program?

Who is the programmer?

How did it get this way?

What do you do when you wake up?