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September 11, 2003
This isn't it either
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.
Posted by Aaron at September 11, 2003 02:07 PM
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I survived the mandatory "moment of silence" at work today accompanied by squelching intercom white noise and fire alarm buzzer.
Posted by: j. brotherlove at September 11, 2003 02:21 PM
I just skipped the whole day this year. I can't handle the Mandatory Public Mourning.
"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."
Posted by: VASpider at September 12, 2003 05:47 AM
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.
Posted by: VASpider at September 12, 2003 05:47 AM
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.
Posted by: Aaron at September 13, 2003 12:14 PM