RECKLESS

Life is reckless. Each day, each hour is a moment of nearly endless possibilities for destruction. To even step out of the door is, in a sense, reckless.
Time is reckless. The advent of quantum theory and the relativity theory has shown time to be a construct of one's place in the universe. It goes slow as it goes fast.
The universe, entropy, colliding stars and cars, all of it (even existence itself) can be reckless.

And what is reckless? It is acting without caution, without concern for your or others' safety, as if there were no consequences.

In this issue, reckless is being confronted not only as a negative but also a positive attribute.
After all, revolutions are reckless. Gandhi was reckless. Those who go to war and those who rail against it are all reckless in their own sense. Those who subvert the system as well as those who remain true to a certain system in spite of rebellion are reckless.

Pop culture is an animal which embraces the reckless while simultaneously rejecting it. One may admire the work of destruction of the music industry monopoly via music piracy, but argue against the industry's retreat to singles rather than full albums as a lowering of artistic standards. Both are two sides of the same coin. Reckless can make us confront and, perhaps, acknowledge the subtle contradictions within our beliefs.

As we look at reckless in this issue, we will look at how the danger of our society is confronted and interpreted as well as how the apathy or aversion to the reckless is understood.

Do third world countries live in a reckless society or is it us? Is a reckless country only dangerous within itself or to the world outside itself? Can the same question be asked for people, for trends? Could "frightened" be an antonym for reckless? Is reckless without fear or a disregard of it?

Is our Western concept of the hero reputable or reckless?

We hope you join us this issue as we tackle the reckless within our world.