| | i was watching civilian-shot footage of 9/11 the other day on the history channel and it left me brooding for a good couple of hours... i even kind of saw why people would be swayed by that bimbo palin's peremptory directive to never apologize... but then i thought about it a little more and came to my senses... what i mean is that though the attacks were not defensible in any way, that doesn't mean there was no rationale behind the anti-american sentiment that originated the schematics of that day by the taliban... after all, we couldn't be so naive as to believe that 100 years of capitalist imperialism and blind, unfettered privatization of other nations' livelihoods for our own gain would not come to bite us in the ass at some point... so that morning we got a wake-up call that in more ways than one made us acknowledge that profit isn't and can't be everything... that the aphorism "money makes the world go 'round" doesn't have to be true... that we don't have to look over our shoulder in cynicism but rather that we should lift each other up if we see someone dragging their feet... but then i look around today and somehow it seems we didn't learn anything (it certainly didn't help that the first thing we were told to do was to go shopping)... it's milton friedman circa 1962 all over again... the shareholder is king... it's all retchingly sickening if you ask me... after all, how can you be proud of a nation that values corporations over lives? that measures people on the thickness of their wallets rather than their character? do i really want to live somewhere where dollars are the fabric of society and not families and friends? where lending a helping hand is only a viable option when it doesn't hurt the bottom line? where the rich get richer and the poor... well, you know... maybe if these are the tenets of free-market capitalism and the founding principles of our nation, we should take a step back and rethink everything on the off chance that this greed-is-good lifestyle may not be worth our collective dysphoria... so what to do, what to do, what to do... i guess first things first, no? i should start by apologizing. |
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