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My post for the day
Sep. 11th, 2002 12:47 pmI've been waffling about this post. It's a post I've considered posting a couple of time and thrown out.
Let me start by saying that I don't really know WHERE this post is going, so if it sounds disjointed or confusing, it's probably due to massive editting.
( 9/11: My Thoughts )
**Edit 2:00 9/11/2002**
One more thought. This one public.
I once heard that the end of the world will not be televised.
This is blatantly false. The end of the world WILL Be televised on live-feed cable TV.
That, I think, is what makes the World Trade Centers stand out in our minds when we think of violence and 9/11. Not that any of the other planes were less important. Not that Oklahome City or Columbine were less important but, thanks to cable TV, the plane striking the second tower and the crumbling of the towers are etched upon everyone's minds, probably forever. And with those etchings, all the emotions that came with it: the horror, the anger, the fear.
This is what makes 9/11 so important, so strong an image, because we all saw it over and over time after time.
Who knows where the events of that day last year will lead. If we teeter towards World War III and eventual human destruction or if we actually can root out the seeds of terror.
I guess that's a question for the historians to answer in 30 or 50 years, when times have changed again and we can all look back and remember. Not live it still.. but remember.
Let me start by saying that I don't really know WHERE this post is going, so if it sounds disjointed or confusing, it's probably due to massive editting.
( 9/11: My Thoughts )
**Edit 2:00 9/11/2002**
One more thought. This one public.
I once heard that the end of the world will not be televised.
This is blatantly false. The end of the world WILL Be televised on live-feed cable TV.
That, I think, is what makes the World Trade Centers stand out in our minds when we think of violence and 9/11. Not that any of the other planes were less important. Not that Oklahome City or Columbine were less important but, thanks to cable TV, the plane striking the second tower and the crumbling of the towers are etched upon everyone's minds, probably forever. And with those etchings, all the emotions that came with it: the horror, the anger, the fear.
This is what makes 9/11 so important, so strong an image, because we all saw it over and over time after time.
Who knows where the events of that day last year will lead. If we teeter towards World War III and eventual human destruction or if we actually can root out the seeds of terror.
I guess that's a question for the historians to answer in 30 or 50 years, when times have changed again and we can all look back and remember. Not live it still.. but remember.
