What's the number for 9/11?
Don't lie. You knew I was going to comment on this at one point or another and have a lame pun as the heading.
A lot of rhetoric has been bandied about regarding 9/11 in the past twenty- four hours that runs the gamut from the impact to the Iraq War to US foreign/domestic policy to Building 7 to the Bush Administration orchestrating the entire thing in order to seize power.
I see no reason to resurrect those arguements for the sake of "This is my stance on everything" posturing. If you know me, you know my thoughts on these subjects already.
Rather, forget everything being said about the world right now and recall back to December 7th, 1941.
For those of you that know your American history, that was the day of the Pearl Harbor attacks. If you didn't know that, I suggest you brush up on your history.
Consider everything that had happened between then and December 7th, 1946, but within the US and worldwide.
Consider everything that has happened between then and December 7th, 2005.
Now put that in context of current events, and more specifically, all of the apocalypse mongering that has been going on for the past several years and the near-saturation of the phrase "Never Forget".
It goes without saying that the US isn't exactly in an ideal place right now. But, consider what our country has been through over the past two hundred years. Besides an unprovoked military attack upon US soil and one of the world's worst terrorist attacks, we've survived two world wars, tyrannical colonial rule, numerous instances of political disgrace, and a civil war.
What I'm saying is that, while things may look incredibly bleak and incredibly fucked up and many of us don't quite know what to do about it, we shouldn't lose hope. We as a country have been through as bad, if not worse situations and survived intact, and tat this is hardly the end for us.
We never will forget September 11th, 2001. But we shouldn't forget that there is life after 9/11, and that there is life after Iraq, the War On Terror, the Bush Administration, and that despite all of the bullshit, there always will be tomorrow not just for us, but for our children, and our grandchildren, and their grandchildren.
We must never lose sight of that, and we must never lose hope.
A lot of rhetoric has been bandied about regarding 9/11 in the past twenty- four hours that runs the gamut from the impact to the Iraq War to US foreign/domestic policy to Building 7 to the Bush Administration orchestrating the entire thing in order to seize power.
I see no reason to resurrect those arguements for the sake of "This is my stance on everything" posturing. If you know me, you know my thoughts on these subjects already.
Rather, forget everything being said about the world right now and recall back to December 7th, 1941.
For those of you that know your American history, that was the day of the Pearl Harbor attacks. If you didn't know that, I suggest you brush up on your history.
Consider everything that had happened between then and December 7th, 1946, but within the US and worldwide.
Consider everything that has happened between then and December 7th, 2005.
Now put that in context of current events, and more specifically, all of the apocalypse mongering that has been going on for the past several years and the near-saturation of the phrase "Never Forget".
It goes without saying that the US isn't exactly in an ideal place right now. But, consider what our country has been through over the past two hundred years. Besides an unprovoked military attack upon US soil and one of the world's worst terrorist attacks, we've survived two world wars, tyrannical colonial rule, numerous instances of political disgrace, and a civil war.
What I'm saying is that, while things may look incredibly bleak and incredibly fucked up and many of us don't quite know what to do about it, we shouldn't lose hope. We as a country have been through as bad, if not worse situations and survived intact, and tat this is hardly the end for us.
We never will forget September 11th, 2001. But we shouldn't forget that there is life after 9/11, and that there is life after Iraq, the War On Terror, the Bush Administration, and that despite all of the bullshit, there always will be tomorrow not just for us, but for our children, and our grandchildren, and their grandchildren.
We must never lose sight of that, and we must never lose hope.