About The Name
Thursday, July 20th, 2006Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is a hilarious and bitter play about a magnificent house filled with foolish people. During the last years of Tsarist rule, this noble family is facing poverty and ruin due to a financial downturn, but nobody in the house knows how to begin to deal with the problem (save a friendly former servant, who is utterly ignored). Chekhov’s brilliant satire ends with the noise of cutting crews destroying the famous cherry orchard that surrounds the estate.
I created TheCherryOrchard.org because I need to speak about the foolishness I see around me in the Middle East, in Africa, in the Americas, Asia, in Europe — even in Australia, even in Antarctica the people must be fools, because in every corner of the world it seems that moderate, humane and peace-loving voices speak only in timid whispers about the violence, injustice and militant propaganda that dominates our world. I intend to use this website to talk about politics, news and history, but I won’t toe any party lines. I stand against stupidity, complacency and conformity, and other than that the only thing I’m sure of is that ice cream tastes good on a summer day.
I run a literary website, LitKicks.com, and I guess I created this new blog to allow me to write about a wider array of topics while keeping that site focused on books and literature. So this is my place where I can talk about whatever the hell I want to talk about, and I plan to talk a lot. I plan to do some listening too. Have a seat, my friend, and join me as we begin this expedition into the heart of human ignominy.
