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nfotxnToday it's going to be very easy to be cynical about the events of the last year after Sept. 11/2001. Here's how I feel about the subject and why I think it's effected so many people for so long. Because really, that's all I can say.
I think what 9/11 really outlined last year was just how connected we are to news media in the first world's nations. It was as if the first pain burned through a new fiber optic nervous system external to our bodies. Everyone with access to a radio, TV or computer experienced a tragedy in real time. For a short period of time the commerical gloss of radio television and fashional indifference internet users lurking websites and forums was stripped. Our naked humanity was presented to the world.
Everyone experienced that trauma together and to write it off as not being the worst tragedy in human history can only be unhealthy. Sole car crash survivors don't brush the blood and dirt off their pants and walk away to grab a coffee because there's been worse accidents. No, people grieve so they can comprehend the situation. Nobody can intellectualize trauma away, you have to feel it to deal with it. To experience and not feel is to truly become inhuman, a monster even.
And now a year later we return to that state of gloss and indifference towards it. This is a very healthy sign and frankly I think everything's gonna be ok barring perhaps new possibility of nuclear war.
What's important now is to understand how the rest of the world is effected by American foreign policy, both political, commercial and theological. Obviously somebody takes great offence to what's stood for in America (including many Americans). So America is gonna go blow 'em up 'cause they were dumb enough to blow America up first. All of this of course happening at the emotional peak of the time post-tragedy at the one year anniversary.
Feeling a little manipulated? You should be.
I think what 9/11 really outlined last year was just how connected we are to news media in the first world's nations. It was as if the first pain burned through a new fiber optic nervous system external to our bodies. Everyone with access to a radio, TV or computer experienced a tragedy in real time. For a short period of time the commerical gloss of radio television and fashional indifference internet users lurking websites and forums was stripped. Our naked humanity was presented to the world.
Everyone experienced that trauma together and to write it off as not being the worst tragedy in human history can only be unhealthy. Sole car crash survivors don't brush the blood and dirt off their pants and walk away to grab a coffee because there's been worse accidents. No, people grieve so they can comprehend the situation. Nobody can intellectualize trauma away, you have to feel it to deal with it. To experience and not feel is to truly become inhuman, a monster even.
And now a year later we return to that state of gloss and indifference towards it. This is a very healthy sign and frankly I think everything's gonna be ok barring perhaps new possibility of nuclear war.
What's important now is to understand how the rest of the world is effected by American foreign policy, both political, commercial and theological. Obviously somebody takes great offence to what's stood for in America (including many Americans). So America is gonna go blow 'em up 'cause they were dumb enough to blow America up first. All of this of course happening at the emotional peak of the time post-tragedy at the one year anniversary.
Feeling a little manipulated? You should be.
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Date: 2002-09-11 09:10 am (UTC)Anyway... he was saying something about how a month or so after people were going, "I want a ham sandwich because if I don't get it, the terrorists have won.". HEHE :)
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Date: 2002-09-11 11:03 am (UTC)Brodie....
Date: 2002-09-11 01:13 pm (UTC)(and I grew up on the border)
You are the brainiest brat I've encountered yet...(and the most usually right or at least correct)
I think I wanna take you home and adopt you!
You rock!
thanks for the breath of fresh air!
Date: 2002-09-11 04:03 pm (UTC)Re: thanks for the breath of fresh air!
Date: 2002-09-11 04:51 pm (UTC)Of course it's important not to take Adbusters too seriously, but heeding what they have to say has always worked well as a counter-point for me politically.
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Date: 2002-09-11 04:05 pm (UTC)Ignoring all context, that last photo is deluxe. THAT'S the kind of thing I'd want as a poster. Minus the text. It just screams "C'mon baby, suck my excess!"
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Date: 2002-09-15 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-15 06:25 pm (UTC)(they're a little chunky for my taste. She looks like that robot chick from the first Star Trek movie)
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Date: 2002-09-16 03:53 am (UTC)I was such a Star Trek geek in those days. We lined up for twelve hours before the movie to see it at the Cinerama dome in Hollywood. La la la, silly!