Yeah...I mean, what can I say? You are totally right. The government did take the experience and turn it into panic. I didn't know there *wasn't* great panic at the time it happened, though. But the fact that the state it happened to, went so predominantly for Kerry? Yeah.
It's just that the government encourages it because that helps it to stay in power. I guess to the people in far away states it's like this weird nebulous thing that creates, well, terror. It's not really as if terrorists are going to attack Appleoak, Montana, are they?
I have some strong opinions on terrorism that would take a while to write out, but basically. Terrorists are weak people who are up against a vastly superior enemy. They strike small but they strike vicious. They can't wage actual war so they have to think up the thing that does the most damage with the least amount of effort.
It's just like killing one in every ten men in your army makes them more obediant - you don't know who's next, so you get in line. The purpose of terrorism is to create terror. And the fact that America just seized up into a terrified ball of fear makes me so sad. It's exactly what they wanted.
A lot of it is also to with nationalism. I extremely dislike nationalism. Probably because I was raised in a lot of different countries. But I'm so much so that the concept of a country that 'feels like home' is just...well, foreign to me. I can understand loving a country but I can't understand being part of one. But nevertheless. I think that, well, nationalism, along with religion and, ethnicism? (I mean, extreme ethnic loyalty), are the three main causes of much of the world's conflicts. We need to get to a state where nations don't matter, and look out for ourselves as a planet, not in the interests of our countries. That's...quite possibly stupidly utopian, but there you go.
To be fair, though, it's probably not as if America is the only country that has this problem, it's just more obvious. I guess no one really knows whether or not disagreeing with the people of Tajikistan gets you labelled anti-Tajikistani unfairly.
Also I should really stop going on now as I'm probably incoherent from lack of sleep. Apologies *wanders around in dazed state*.
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Date: 2004-11-05 01:43 pm (UTC)It's just that the government encourages it because that helps it to stay in power. I guess to the people in far away states it's like this weird nebulous thing that creates, well, terror. It's not really as if terrorists are going to attack Appleoak, Montana, are they?
I have some strong opinions on terrorism that would take a while to write out, but basically. Terrorists are weak people who are up against a vastly superior enemy. They strike small but they strike vicious. They can't wage actual war so they have to think up the thing that does the most damage with the least amount of effort.
It's just like killing one in every ten men in your army makes them more obediant - you don't know who's next, so you get in line. The purpose of terrorism is to create terror. And the fact that America just seized up into a terrified ball of fear makes me so sad. It's exactly what they wanted.
A lot of it is also to with nationalism. I extremely dislike nationalism. Probably because I was raised in a lot of different countries. But I'm so much so that the concept of a country that 'feels like home' is just...well, foreign to me. I can understand loving a country but I can't understand being part of one. But nevertheless. I think that, well, nationalism, along with religion and, ethnicism? (I mean, extreme ethnic loyalty), are the three main causes of much of the world's conflicts. We need to get to a state where nations don't matter, and look out for ourselves as a planet, not in the interests of our countries. That's...quite possibly stupidly utopian, but there you go.
To be fair, though, it's probably not as if America is the only country that has this problem, it's just more obvious. I guess no one really knows whether or not disagreeing with the people of Tajikistan gets you labelled anti-Tajikistani unfairly.
Also I should really stop going on now as I'm probably incoherent from lack of sleep. Apologies *wanders around in dazed state*.