yes, you phoned me. i was physically fine - i was nowhere near lower Manhattan when the attack happened. but i was, of course, emotionally devastated. and i was concerned for sorcia, who was still learning how to shield herself against external emotional forces.
i agree with you... the absurdities perpetrated in the name of "vengeance for 9/11" have nothing to do with what happened that day, and i'm sure that many of the people who died woud be appalled at what's been done in their name.
i find it psychologically very unhealthy, though, the way the media dwell on the tragedy every year at this time. quit picking at the scab, and let the scars heal! there's a difference between "respectful memory" and "obsession".
and, lastly... in addition to all the people, there were two buildings that died, two enormously complex marvels of architecture and engineering. any piece of technology that complex has something equivalent to a personality or soul. the buildings died in flaming agony too - am i the only one to mourn them?
It is extremely psychologically unhealthy to dwell on things such as 9/11 or any other massive tragedy. I wish they would just do a small memorial and be done with it, instead of the all day kind of things they've been doing. As for the buildings, you do have a point that the buildings died too. Most people don't think of constructions of metal and glass as alive though, so you aren't going to get that kind of media coverage. It doesn't hit the warm and fuzzy meter with most people.
i must say that i'm rather eager to see the new "Freedom Tower" built. just by its existence, it will be a better memorial than all the media garbage - the reading of the names again, the appallingly bad New York Emerald Society (Irish-American cops) Pipe Band playing "Amazing Grace", smarmy speeches by every politician in town... *sigh*
true, most people don't think of technological objects, no matter how complex, as being "alive" in any way (but we know they are, of course). but in addition to the human suffering three years ago, i heard the buildings screaming too... i felt them struggling to continue to do their job while the people got out. and, even as they died, they did what they had been built to do - they collapsed inward and straight down, instead of toppling over and causing far more damage below. call it good design and engineering, or call it technomagick... they're very nearly the same thing...
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i agree with you... the absurdities perpetrated in the name of "vengeance for 9/11" have nothing to do with what happened that day, and i'm sure that many of the people who died woud be appalled at what's been done in their name.
i find it psychologically very unhealthy, though, the way the media dwell on the tragedy every year at this time. quit picking at the scab, and let the scars heal! there's a difference between "respectful memory" and "obsession".
and, lastly... in addition to all the people, there were two buildings that died, two enormously complex marvels of architecture and engineering. any piece of technology that complex has something equivalent to a personality or soul. the buildings died in flaming agony too - am i the only one to mourn them?
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true, most people don't think of technological objects, no matter how complex, as being "alive" in any way (but we know they are, of course). but in addition to the human suffering three years ago, i heard the buildings screaming too... i felt them struggling to continue to do their job while the people got out. and, even as they died, they did what they had been built to do - they collapsed inward and straight down, instead of toppling over and causing far more damage below. call it good design and engineering, or call it technomagick... they're very nearly the same thing...
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