The Balm of Reason
There are many people and many motives that flesh out each and every digital projection in our world. Digital structures that last do so for several reasons. A primary reason is correspondence, the more blood has been squeezed in, the greater the capacity to defend, create, empower and fashion in this realm. The first person who offered an extended commentary on SI on the transpiring events did so at 10:02AM, shortly after the first tower collapsed. I have reproduced it in its entirety. It was posted by X the Unknown in the Kissy Kissy Read Any Good Books Thread?
"This is a media event designed to inspire terror. These horrible fanatics have picked symbolic targets. What they want is terror. Do not feel it, it is what they want. If you allow yourself to feel terror they have won. I know none of us want "them" whoever they are (and clearly they are very "other") to win.
Clearly the people who carried this out were people with nothing left to lose. They chose to kill themselves in service to an idea. Their lives had to be pretty unimportant to them. The only way to combat this type of thing is to give all people a LIFE WORTH VALUING. Let us remember that. Rage and hate- well they end up giving you this sort of thing when taken to the extreme. If you allow yourself to be take over by rage and hate, you can feel the same things these poor people do. Is that what we want? It is not what I want. It will not bring back the dead.
What is needed is compassion to realize WHY people do this sort of thing. If it is Palestinians this is a symbol of their frustration at being a people under siege. They blew up a few targets here- but they live with the destruction of their homeland. And the destruction of their children. And the destruction of their lives. Now they export a tiny fraction here. I am amazed there isn't more of this sort of thing considering the luxury and peace we live in, and the horrible conditions in the rest of the world."
A few minutes later AllansAlias will state the case more simply, drink in hand, tears falling "I am crying and drinking. Still, I am reminded that in many parts of the world there is violence, not like this perhaps, but violence every day. Americans have been sheltered from it up to now. even when I lived in Paris, we had a period where we had an explosion perpetrated by Action Direct every week or two for a few months." Reminding Americans that they have avoided many of the ills that plague other parts of the world may not seem like the wisest course of action but it helps to dispel the disbelief that clings to the chain of events that has unfolded so far. |
