Holding
Not folding on this ginned up bunch of self-centered fake nostalgia over the attack on NYC five years ago; people should be able to realize, say, that they need to spend more time with their families and/or friends, without using 9/11 to claim a suddenly acquired sensitivity. Nor should the attack be used to justify showing their true prejudices against any other skin tone than white. 9/11 increasingly seems to be a blanket alibi for all kinds of behaviors, mostly selfish. Reading people's stories about "how 9/11 changed everything", from people who weren't in NYC or didn't have people they cared about affected by it, I am getting a repeatedly fake bounce off the claims, which range all the way along the continuum from crocodile tears to the trumped-up warmongering by the US administration. Of course it was a traumatic event, but it's being milked. If people truly are changed, truly become more considerate of others, putting someone else first besides themselves, wonderful, human nature might be evolving; but somehow I don't think they are the same ones who are trumpeting about their "transformations" in these smarmy newspaper pieces.
Good night and good grief.
Good night and good grief.
posted by isabelita at 5:17 PM
3 Comments:
You sum up exactly why I did not publish the post I had planned. It was all written and saved in draft. It had a photo of a body falling from the WTC. The text said:
Some images stay forever. Planes flying into buildings. People leaping from the 100th story. We watched. Our mouths open. Our hearts broken. We saw a human leap from a burning building in one country and crash into another, a changed America. We did not know it then, not even the next day when we all stared at each other with a sobered consciousness and understood for a moment that we were all one people on one land without division and divisiveness. But that body falling, no longer a person, but a symbol-- a tragedy-- a leaf without a tree, collided with the earth in a new land. A land where the constitution has no meaning, where plans to invade sovereign nations are hatched out of her flesh, where invocation of her death is a Republican talking point-- a clip in a 30 second promo for some half-witted office seeker, where a permanent civil war is imposed in our nation's capital and we who seek peace are vilified for appeasement, and where truth is a commodity that has no value.
Our America was lost that day, and we are not sure it is reclaimable. So, we weep on this anniversary for all that is now long gone.
I couldn't bring myself to post it. Any feeling I have about 9/11 has been completely usurped by my contempt for this administration and their fake nostalgia and bullshit mourning.
the nostalga is killing me to, Isa. I think remembering the events is only as good as it helps us to figure out a way to move forward into a positive, peaceful world. And thus far, it hasn't gotten us one iota closer to that aim, now has it?
Blog on sister
Robin, your post is eloquent. it points up the cognitive dissonance more Americans should be experiencing.
'spike, it certainly doesn't seem to be doing so. Where are we, who ought to be a loyal opposition, who want some kind of peace?
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