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Feeling Filosophical again
Jun. 12th, 2001 10:55 amOK, so Tim McVeigh is dead. It surprises me how vocal EVERYONE has been about what a craven coward he was. I've never heard the press be so vocal about anyone before.. Ted Bundy, Saddam Hussein. Tim McVeigh was a hated man.. and rightly so. He was an American tourist who killed 136 completely innocent people to protest.. WHAT? His crime was so much worse than what he protested against...
What really saddens me, though, is the realization that Oklahoma City is probably going to be the defining moment in so many of our generation's lives. It's the moment that people in the future can go and define our generation by... the total senseless violence. Well, either that or Columbine.
Our generation is defined by senseless violence. It's sad.
Our parents lived the American Dream. They lived in a time where the worst thing that could happen was a family fight, but within a 30 minute TV show it would all be patched up and that was the end of it until the next episode. People could leave their doors unlocked and America was a place where everyone had a chance to get a job. Nowadays, parents say a prayer that their children won't be shot in school.
Where did things go so very wrong?
*Sigh*
What really saddens me, though, is the realization that Oklahoma City is probably going to be the defining moment in so many of our generation's lives. It's the moment that people in the future can go and define our generation by... the total senseless violence. Well, either that or Columbine.
Our generation is defined by senseless violence. It's sad.
Our parents lived the American Dream. They lived in a time where the worst thing that could happen was a family fight, but within a 30 minute TV show it would all be patched up and that was the end of it until the next episode. People could leave their doors unlocked and America was a place where everyone had a chance to get a job. Nowadays, parents say a prayer that their children won't be shot in school.
Where did things go so very wrong?
*Sigh*
