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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Free ThoughtCrime America: [QB] One year ago today I got out of work at six in the morning, tired and wired from another day in the shit-storm that is/was my job. I came home, put on some tunes, switched on the TV to some dull ass news network for background scenery, found my place in "The Lucifer Principle" and prepared to immerse myself in theoritical memetic engineering until I fell asleep. So, I happened to be occasionally glancing at CNN over pages explaining the dangers of certain virual memes when something happening in New York caught my attention at about eight in the morning, central time... I believe every human being on planet earth that can access the news media knows the rest of what happened that morning. It's been a year, folks. I'm not one to sound the call for patriotism, or ask for fake sympathy from a world that general despises this country, for reasons real or imagined. I'm not going to sit here and ask anybody to light a fucking candle or even hold a moment of silence for people they didn't know. All I know is that a whole lot of people died a year ago today. All I know is that one year ago today I was scared for family and friends in New York City, even though none of them works or lives that close to the WTC. All I know is that today actually holds a special place in this cynical heart of mine. Not because of American pride, or any memetically programmed sense of National Unity. Today is special because a large number of people (nearly equal to the total population of many of the small towns I grew up in) died in a way that nobody of any nation, religion, gender, race, creed or smart-ass attitude should ever have to fear dying like. And when I start thinking that, I start thinking that maybe Sept. 11th shouldn't just be a day of mourning and rememberance for America. Perhaps, just perhaps, it should be a day of mourning and rememberance for the entire world. To remember the horrors of war, of genocides, of atrocities commited across the slow crawl of history by Evil Men. From the Holocaust to the rape you heard happened two streets over last week, from the suicide bombers to the children who take guns to schools and shoot other kids. Let it encompass the entire lexicon of savage deeds. A day for remembering Terror, Loss, grief, and agony. I say: Why not? We have days of celebration all the time. Perhaps it is time that we have a day of damnation, damning not only the men who commit heinous acts, but damning the very nature of man that allows these things to occur. And why not on Sept 11th? It's still fresh...and though there have been things that dwarf it in terms of magnitude, it holds a memetic power that is undenable. I dunno. Maybe it's a stupid idea. Maybe... Anyway. Happy September 11th, folks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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