My take on 9/11

This day is now a National Holiday.  I will say, first off, that i'm sorry to all the families and friends who had people die.  For everyone else, stop faking like this really affected your daily life...it's old and tiresome.  I remember where I was, as well, and yes it was intense and surrealistic, but seriously do you need to cry whenever the subject comes up?  What about genocides that happen all the time?  Can you have some remote sympathy for Rwandans on April 6th every year? When you wake up,  do you practice a moment of silence for Darfur?  After all, it is ethnic violence, categorically the same discriminatory "religious" violence perpetuated against the U.S.

No you don't, because it doesn't affect your daily lives..only 9/11 does because your media and government SAYS it does.  9/11 is the best pro-war rally cry this country has ever had.  Better than Pearl Harbor.  The enemy is 1) unseen, 2) everywhere and 3) hates us at a basal/instinctual/fundamental level...So we can always justify endless searching.  Which costs money.  And if money is getting spent, then money is being earned.  Capitalizing on suffering.  Suffering that is not even most of ours.  If you lost family in 9/11, then fine.  Otherwise what are you feeling?  Suffering? Are you part of a new empathetic human movement that I am unaware of? No, you are feeling fear.  See you can't feel, day-to-day, what it's like to lose someone in 9/11.  You have to be reminded once a year.  Almost no one would fucking remember until you were dating a check that day and you think, "hmmm, it's 9/11".  Thank you FOX and MSNBC! You're like an alarm clock for our compassionate souls, that have been slumbering all year! Where would we ever be without you!

"Well it's about our freedom and our way of life"!  Are you seriously afraid of being attacked by Muslim hordes on a daily basis?  If you are, then hey there Lawrence of Arabia: you are maladjusted to life and should seek professional help.  Is this Kingdom of Heaven?  Are you the Prince of Persia?

Ground zero is circus now.  We made it a circus.  Are people still fighting over the spot of ground in Beirut where 300 American and French servicemen died?  No.  What about where Americans where killed SUPPOSEDLY BY Bin Laden in Tanzania?  Nope.  Only Ground zero, cause they attacked: a symbol?  Did we really convert American lives into a symbol?

This holiday is not about unity.  Democrats-united.  Republicans-united.  Christians-united.  Jews-united.  Steel Workers-united.  It's easier to get folks to do what you want them to do when they have a sense of unity.