Peril
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After the popular upheaval that ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from power, the
peril
of supporting Arab autocrats in exchange for flimsy stability should have once again become apparent to Western powers.
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And maybe the wrong person was winning or they were having too good of a time, but whatever it was that this person saw, with this black person and this white person playing checkers, they felt the entire foundation of Southern civilization was in
peril.
It's no wonder that scrawny second-born Jack Kennedy fought so hard to compete with his fitter firstborn brother, Joe, often at his peril, at one point, engaging in a bicycle race around the house that resulted in a collision costing John 28 stitches.
It's like doing extra-vehicular activity in space, but at much greater distances, and at much greater physical
peril.
And I look at this thing, and, I don't know, I get a lot of hope that maybe this smaller, networked, open world that our kids inherit might be a better one, and that this new age of networked intelligence could be an age of promise fulfilled and of
peril
unrequited.
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