Damnation

[knightedrogue]

The radio station I always listen to in the morning during my ridiculous commute was playing insufferable, terribly cheesy and demented songs with little children singing over it, a la "Tears in Heaven" and other such whiney things. I cursed them in the car readily and had to switch stations throughout the drive.

I get to work, print an overdue

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[pcrackenhead]

Urgh, there's an inherent "we're better than you"-ness about wrapping yourself in a flag and chanting USA, USA, that just irks me.

Reflecting on it a year or so afterwards, when I was choosing schools as a Senior in High School, my other option that I seriously looked at was Taylor University which is back in the middle of farmland in Indiana. That would have been a very different attitude to receive the context of the attacks in, and I'm assuming also would have kept a lot of enthusiasm for patriotism alive, but even so, it's still very detatched from the psyche of our culture - at least to me it is.

So does that mean that in 20-50 years we'll still have to listen to gooey songs on Sept 11th?

It'll be interesting to see if the date survives, even if the event loses interest - Veteran's Day, for example, was made on November 11 for a reason, it's when WWI (the war to end all wars) ended, which I'm sure had a whole different context to the people effected by it in the roaring 20s than it does now.

Regardless, all I listened to was Sports on Sept 11, so I missed all the whiney annoying music anyway. :)

edit - annoying not being able to move comments around, it's in the right place now, says my OCD