An Election Note

Celebations are raging, quite literally, all over the world in the wake of the election of the new American President. Voters in the States are feeling a rushing high that they have enabled Change. Democracy, indeed, is designed to make one feel that his participation creates history.

And for all the symbolism of the 2008 election, and for all the historical import attributed to it, it might be helpful to remember: Nothing has happened yet. We have symbols, we have gestures. Will we fill them in with meaning?