Mourning 9/11
I feel like I've been mourning 9/11 in some form or fashion for the past 19 years.
When things happen to us, they happen TO us. They affect us physically, emotionally, spiritually, and so forth. They crawl into us and take up residence in our being. And in that instance, we are permanently changed because of it.
And for what it's worth, there is no 'getting over' these things. There's no such thing as 'closure' or 'letting go of the past', or any other hyper romanticized pseudopsychological nonsense. All that is the secular way of saying, "God works in mysterious ways."
Its absolute bullshit.
9/11 was the rock thrown into the proverbial still pond and the waves it created affected millions whose lives course-corrected and changed/ ended due to it.
The fear and hypervigilance that grew out of the remains of those buildings, that created in short order, the paranoia and anger and mistrust of 'other' haven't abated. I would argue that 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden are the meathooks wrenching this countrywide open even till today. So much so, that it seems like we're making Bin Laden a posthumous success story even though he's long since been made fish food.
And there are those who've taken full advantage of that fear. Their cynicism, their greed, their desire to drive a wedge between members of this society on the graves of those who perished on 9/11 is nothing short of absolute evil. Fox News, Breitbart, 4Chan, QAnon, and so forth are these evils that plague the mind of the fearful.
There is even talk of Civil War should Donald Trump not be reelected in the next presidential race. People are saying how 'ready' they are.
But the question I have for them is A) are you really ready for that? and B) if you were so ready for it, then why hasn't your ass been involved in the wars to protect this country in the past 20 years?
Because of the dead of 9/11, we've added those who are the dead from Iraq and Afghanistan. But they're not alone.
Every single day in America, since these endless wars began, 20 veterans die by suicide because of the war that they were involved in. Because those wars HAPPENED to them. It gets into them, it changed them on every human level and removed hope as a driving force in their lives. There are even those who killed themselves even when they never saw combat. Being over there in the intensity of a theatre of war was enough to plant seeds of doubt in the soul of humanity. I'm one of them.
Don't believe me? It's being said that mental illness in this country given the stress of our current political climate as well as COVID-19 is at an all-time high. NAMI - The National Alliance on Mental Illness, is saying that they're absolutely overwhelmed with reported cases of anxiety/ depression and people showing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
No, I'm not afraid of sectarian violence (Killer Cops aside) coming from Boogaloo boys, etc. ad naseum. I'm afraid that 9/11 has weakened us, along with Trump and COVID, to such an extent that we're incredibly vulnerable to an outside attack. The paper tigers with their AR-15's and Weaponized Words are the liability in this situation.
The Qanon and Breitbart and Fox news are simply the vectors by which systematic mistrust of government and the people who reside in this nation, were delivered. If you do believe in good conspiracy theories, here's one for you. It's all economic.
The Oligarchy cannot exist in a society with a healthy, vibrant democracy. And trust me, Bin Laden wasn't some freedom fighter, none of those dudes, those so-called 'leaders' were. They were tyrants who desired power above all else. They were a fifth-century version of Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg.
They handed their people guns and dogma and whatever else they needed to radicalize them and weaken the nations of the middle east one by one until there was nothing left. The same is being done here by people in Versaci outfits and quaffed hair and an hour of lying to you on television. Zeroing in on your fear of 'other' they are cutting the ties that bind you to your fellow citizen and your country as a whole.
With every single "They should have listened" or "they had a record" or "she wasn't exactly innocent" to justify the extra-judicial killings or outright murder of your fellow citizen without due process makes Osama Bin Laden a victor in shredding this democracy and our nation. Every single time we turn our backs on systemic racism or refuse to hold our elected officials accountable for their crimes, we give away our rights as citizens in this country. That little kid who shot those people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was a radicalized terrorist. He wasn't acting in self-defense. He was brought up to be a killer. Given the weapon and taken to the place where he would act as a single cell operative, no different than the Boston Bomber. No different.
His presence was meant to alter local politics to what he believed and instill fear in those who opposed his political ideology. That's all 9/11 was. That's all the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1995 by Timothy McVeigh was. That's all the murders of black people are and have been since the end of Jim Crow.
And just like Osama Bin Laden etc. et al, these advocates of this type of behavior aren't out at the forefront leading the charge. They're sitting comfortably in their million-dollar homes while you go out and do the dirty work for them. And as you catch Covid-19 from your rallies etc. and your refusal to wear masks, they have access to premium healthcare.
To them, your nothing more than useful idiots like those 15 hijackers, and your death(s) will mean nothing to them in the end.
Yeah, I'm in mourning. There's, even more, a reason to mourn today than there was 19 years ago.
When things happen to us, they happen TO us. They affect us physically, emotionally, spiritually, and so forth. They crawl into us and take up residence in our being. And in that instance, we are permanently changed because of it.
And for what it's worth, there is no 'getting over' these things. There's no such thing as 'closure' or 'letting go of the past', or any other hyper romanticized pseudopsychological nonsense. All that is the secular way of saying, "God works in mysterious ways."
Its absolute bullshit.
9/11 was the rock thrown into the proverbial still pond and the waves it created affected millions whose lives course-corrected and changed/ ended due to it.
The fear and hypervigilance that grew out of the remains of those buildings, that created in short order, the paranoia and anger and mistrust of 'other' haven't abated. I would argue that 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden are the meathooks wrenching this countrywide open even till today. So much so, that it seems like we're making Bin Laden a posthumous success story even though he's long since been made fish food.
And there are those who've taken full advantage of that fear. Their cynicism, their greed, their desire to drive a wedge between members of this society on the graves of those who perished on 9/11 is nothing short of absolute evil. Fox News, Breitbart, 4Chan, QAnon, and so forth are these evils that plague the mind of the fearful.
There is even talk of Civil War should Donald Trump not be reelected in the next presidential race. People are saying how 'ready' they are.
But the question I have for them is A) are you really ready for that? and B) if you were so ready for it, then why hasn't your ass been involved in the wars to protect this country in the past 20 years?
Because of the dead of 9/11, we've added those who are the dead from Iraq and Afghanistan. But they're not alone.
Every single day in America, since these endless wars began, 20 veterans die by suicide because of the war that they were involved in. Because those wars HAPPENED to them. It gets into them, it changed them on every human level and removed hope as a driving force in their lives. There are even those who killed themselves even when they never saw combat. Being over there in the intensity of a theatre of war was enough to plant seeds of doubt in the soul of humanity. I'm one of them.
Don't believe me? It's being said that mental illness in this country given the stress of our current political climate as well as COVID-19 is at an all-time high. NAMI - The National Alliance on Mental Illness, is saying that they're absolutely overwhelmed with reported cases of anxiety/ depression and people showing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
No, I'm not afraid of sectarian violence (Killer Cops aside) coming from Boogaloo boys, etc. ad naseum. I'm afraid that 9/11 has weakened us, along with Trump and COVID, to such an extent that we're incredibly vulnerable to an outside attack. The paper tigers with their AR-15's and Weaponized Words are the liability in this situation.
The Qanon and Breitbart and Fox news are simply the vectors by which systematic mistrust of government and the people who reside in this nation, were delivered. If you do believe in good conspiracy theories, here's one for you. It's all economic.
The Oligarchy cannot exist in a society with a healthy, vibrant democracy. And trust me, Bin Laden wasn't some freedom fighter, none of those dudes, those so-called 'leaders' were. They were tyrants who desired power above all else. They were a fifth-century version of Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg.
They handed their people guns and dogma and whatever else they needed to radicalize them and weaken the nations of the middle east one by one until there was nothing left. The same is being done here by people in Versaci outfits and quaffed hair and an hour of lying to you on television. Zeroing in on your fear of 'other' they are cutting the ties that bind you to your fellow citizen and your country as a whole.
With every single "They should have listened" or "they had a record" or "she wasn't exactly innocent" to justify the extra-judicial killings or outright murder of your fellow citizen without due process makes Osama Bin Laden a victor in shredding this democracy and our nation. Every single time we turn our backs on systemic racism or refuse to hold our elected officials accountable for their crimes, we give away our rights as citizens in this country. That little kid who shot those people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was a radicalized terrorist. He wasn't acting in self-defense. He was brought up to be a killer. Given the weapon and taken to the place where he would act as a single cell operative, no different than the Boston Bomber. No different.
His presence was meant to alter local politics to what he believed and instill fear in those who opposed his political ideology. That's all 9/11 was. That's all the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1995 by Timothy McVeigh was. That's all the murders of black people are and have been since the end of Jim Crow.
And just like Osama Bin Laden etc. et al, these advocates of this type of behavior aren't out at the forefront leading the charge. They're sitting comfortably in their million-dollar homes while you go out and do the dirty work for them. And as you catch Covid-19 from your rallies etc. and your refusal to wear masks, they have access to premium healthcare.
To them, your nothing more than useful idiots like those 15 hijackers, and your death(s) will mean nothing to them in the end.
Yeah, I'm in mourning. There's, even more, a reason to mourn today than there was 19 years ago.
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