Hopefully
you de-friend me as there will be less things I couldn’t give a crap
about clogging up Zuckerberg’s almighty feed but here is how I feel:
yes, the bombing was horrible, any loss of human life is shitty no
matter how it’s been lost, especially when that loss is precipitated by a
cowardly act of terror at an event that should have been anything but
terrible. And maybe all the moments of silences
at pro sporting events and things like the “NY for B” logo that have
been popping up are soothing (?) for some people and I guess help people
find some solidarity amidst the wreckage. But instead of spending your
time designing and/or posting images of the Statue of Liberty wearing a
Red Sox cap looking sad and writing statuses bemoaning how much it sucks
that there is hatred in the world, that we have to live in an era of
unprecedented domestic fear, etc. maybe you should instead try to put
the bombing in context. Was it worse than the 551 civilian deaths in
2012 in Afghanistan that were directly attributed to Coalition soldiers?
Worse than the daily GENOCIDE Israel has been committing for more than
half a century with mucho help from the US (to the tune of $8.6 MILLION
in aid per day)? Henry Miller is looking more and more like a prophet –
“Nothing will avail to offset this virus which is poisoning the whole
world. America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole
world down to the bottomless pit.” Maybe instead of changing your
profile pictures and bitching about how many crazies there are running
around you should band together and overthrow the proponents of the
cheap (and often deadly) idealism that has made the climate in which we
live possible. Otherwise this is just another (not so big, in the scheme
of things) taste of our own ignorant medicine.
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