Friday, September 11, 2009
9-11
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It's raining in New York City - pouring, in fact - and is expected to rain and be gloomy all day. Which makes this the first day since and including the day itself that the color of the light and the quality of the air reflects the emotional atmosphere.
What a somber and difficult day. It's an occasion for serious quiet thought. But the more I have thought and learned in the last eight years, the less I have a clear sense of what reactions would be best personally, let alone any idea whatsoever of what would be best nationally or internationally. All I know is that I have hope that nothing like it will ever happen again to anyone for any reason.
Anger is understandable. Resentment is understandable. Passion for one's beliefs is understandable. Wanting to wreak revenge on those who have harmed loved ones is understandable. Intense feelings on all sides are understandable. But what about trying to listen and hear and work and live together? It *has* to be possible. It just has to be.
What a somber and difficult day. It's an occasion for serious quiet thought. But the more I have thought and learned in the last eight years, the less I have a clear sense of what reactions would be best personally, let alone any idea whatsoever of what would be best nationally or internationally. All I know is that I have hope that nothing like it will ever happen again to anyone for any reason.
Anger is understandable. Resentment is understandable. Passion for one's beliefs is understandable. Wanting to wreak revenge on those who have harmed loved ones is understandable. Intense feelings on all sides are understandable. But what about trying to listen and hear and work and live together? It *has* to be possible. It just has to be.
Labels: anniversaries, ideas
2 comments
It might be if everyone was like you but they're not. There are stupid people, selfish people, real bad people, narcissists, psychopaths, simpletons, plain everyday criminals and don't forget Socialists whose huge hubristic egos give them to think that they know best how everyone should live and that they therefore should have complete control over every little aspect of people's lives, the nanny state.
When you think of the problems that arise just within some families it gives you an inkling of the impossibility of "Why can't we all just get along?"
One of my favourite books is Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions which has some good insight into the origins of the problems between right and left. Though not a substitute for reading it, this talk by Bill Whittle on it is pretty good.
http://www.pjtv.com/v/2403
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