Because I'm not doing one. I was just looking over Arundhati Roy's article ZNet | Foreign Policy | The loneliness of Noam Chomsky:
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist strikes in New York and Washington, the mainstream media's blatant performance as the U.S. government's mouthpiece, its display of vengeful patriotism, its willingness to publish Pentagon press handouts as news, and its explicit censorship of dissenting opinion became the butt of some pretty black humour in the rest of the world.Then the New York Stock Exchange crashed, bankrupt airline companies appealed to the government for financial bailouts, and there was talk of circumventing patent laws in order to manufacture generic drugs to fight the anthrax scare (much more important, and urgent of course, than the production of generics to fight AIDS in Africa). Suddenly, it began to seem as though the twin myths of Free Speech and the Free Market might come crashing down alongside the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
But of course that never happened. The myths live on.
And thought I'd mention it.
No one talks about the anthrax attacks much anymore, do they? I'm a bit ashamed to admit I don't even remember how many people were killed, in contrast to the total fatalities in New York, which have been drummed into my head through relentless repetition. . .
. . . and that's getting perilously close to what I've already said I'm not doing.
I survived the mandatory "moment of silence" at work today accompanied by squelching intercom white noise and fire alarm buzzer.
I just skipped the whole day this year. I can't handle the Mandatory Public Mourning.
Hm. Hate when I hit post too early.
Anyway, not that something like that's likely to sink in to those what need for it to sink in.
VASpider, true, that.
Still, out of respect for those with legitimate reasons to grieve, I declined to repost that cd cover I put up last 9/11.
I was in an extraordinarily crappy mood in those days.
j., my heart goes out to you, brother.