talk is cheap and it doesn’t mean much
I got myself caught up in the 9/11 stuff a little too much. It would be easy to say that it was everywhere and forced down your throat, but I sought it out. Searching for coverage, looking for articles, I drowned myself in the remembrance. It affected me, which I found kind of surprising. I was pretty bummed out about the event for the whole week. But even dealing with that isn’t as cut and dry as it should be.
I spent a lot of time looking into the abundant conspiracy theories about the terrorist acts. The missiles to the Pentagon, the Towers rigged to explode, the planes not actually having people in them, Flight 93 shot down. There seems to be a lot of possibility in it at face value, but when you look further and realise who is advancing these theories, it starts to really lose the ability to hold an possibility of the truth. I suppose, in the case of an event so tragic, adding mystery and myth to the story only heightens the intrigue.
On a related point, the whole anti-US stigma is a little too popular now. A seperation needs to be made between the country and the government there, both in the eyes of themselves and the eyes of their critics. It’s like a cool thing to hate on Bush and the States: “oh he’s ruining the world”, “oh he’s evil”, “oh he looks like a monkey”. I’m all for political criticism, but I think the whole anti-US movement has grown stale, because it’s the same statements being dredged up. I dunna, I’m not trying to defend the States, but I just feeling like hating on them has reached the level that it’s now “popular” and so it loses some of the intelligence behind the argument. It’s one thing if you can engage in political debate, quite another if you’re just saying Boo Bush, because Jon Stewart, or some band or a comedian or all your friends say so.
It’s my belief that governments, all governments are at their base, self-serving creatures. The amount of credit that some people give them for trying to ruin the world is a little far reaching. It’s not that they might or might not be capable of such acts, but it just doesn’t make sense in the scope which they operate.
I don’t know, it seems like I’ve been having this argument in my head and with things I’ve read and heard. It probably doesn’t make sense, but I feel like it makes sense.