9/11 · 5:43am Sep 12th, 2022
The day that changed everything. I’m not forgetting it any time soon. Nearly 3000 people tragically died that day, & because it happened at home & caused such destruction, it made so many Americans feel far less safe. Many feared being in urban environments & around major landmarks out of fear of copycat terrorism, & there was an anthrax scare too - Americans were afraid Al Qaeda was planting viruses in the mail because basically, they were.
However, as it cannot be stressed enough, not only had this served as an excuse for more government invasion on privacy, an excuse for using wars to police the globe, & the whole reason why 9/11 happened was because the FBI had cause to see those men as suspicious, but did nothing for what has been speculated to be religious reasons (it used to be common for religions like Mormonism to project their own struggles onto Islam; the events after 9/11 pretty much slowed that trend to a crawl, but not back then).
In other words, a tragedy that happened due to government incompetence & corruption has been used to justify further government takeover & corruption, & the fact that the US government used a tragedy of a colossal scale to justify unethical behavior is beyond tasteless.
We should honor everybody who died that day, but not through wars & regulations, some of which may eventually lead to further travesties, but through holding out government accountable for the protection of the people it is supposed to answer to. To hold them to standards & to partake in local politics with hopes we can slowly make this a better country, & thus, hopefully prevent such colossal terrorism...
& yes, you can tell 9/11 jokes. I don’t tell 9/11 jokes because it’s serious business for me, but just because I don’t have any, doesn’t mean I am going to get offended at somebody who does. Getting offended is for authoritarians & Leftists. I know that people have all kinds of different ways to handle the awful crap life dishes out. I have my more serious way. Some people have others.
Anyway, have a good one!
For you, the day Al-Queada graced those towers was the most important day in American history.
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BTW, 9/11 actually did happen on a Tuesday. I just found that out today specifically so I can make this dumb meme.
*cracks knuckles* Good because there's plenty more where that came from:
"I once pitched a buddy comedy to Happy Madison where Adam Sandler plays a window-washer working at the Twin Towers and David Spade did the voice of a talking CGI plane. It didn't land too well."
"So that's where the developers of Angry Birds got the idea from."
"The Twin Towers. Proud owners of the world's first-ever fly-through."
"Alright, who dared a bunch of religious extremists to play a real-life game of Jenga?!"
"I'll never forget the events of 7/11. Wait, what do you mean that's a convenience store?!"
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Whatever it is, it's on fire and is heading straight for the Twin Towers."
"Man, these jokes aren't flying too well. Just like the plane."
"Al-Quaeda did nothing wrong."
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For me personally, edge for its own sake is not my preferred response to an event with such severe consequences, so I generally opt for a more serious approach. I know not everybody else follows the same route, everybody’s different. Besides, I’m still not offended. Not one of those offended me. Getting offended at anything is cancer.
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True dat, as I found out the hard way last month when the owner of a brain fetish Discord server booted me out over a middle finger emoji.
Hey Grant... it's been a while (if almost month and a half can be considered a while).
Didn't expect to see you still active here. I logged in because I felt kind of homesick, but I didn't expect to see a blog post from you, especially one so moving.
I was a really small kid when that day went down. I didn't even know what was going on at 9/11 until a couple years later. But as an adult I'm feeling the effects and aftershocks much more.
For perfectly understandable reasons, it's easy to see why humans would react so strongly to tragedy. In some cultures, huge ritual sacrifices would be made in response, in other cultures the bards and poets and scribes would make dramatic poems about it, and leaders would take advantage of the situation to either improve or worsen the conditions of the people.
I think in this modern informational age, in which unbelievable numbers of people are so connected by technology, the leaders taking advantage of the situation have ushered in a very new kind of terror that has left lasting waves in culture. Namely the obsession with policing not just the world but the individual.
I don't know how long this culture of obsession will last, but I think one good way of dispelling it is to remember this tragic time for what it is, and consider the loss of human lives for what they were. No political strings attached. I'm a few days late for this blog, but I stand by you Grant. You and the rest of the U. S. of A.