It has been an exhausting day for the entire world. I think I will go to bed much
earlier tonight, assuming I can sleep. Like much of the country, I've been mesmerized
by the hyper-real coverage of an event that hardly seems real at all. The
CNN
logo remains in inverted green on my retina when I close my eyes; I haven't missed
over 20 minutes of coverage since 9am. That can't be healthy. As the dust finally
starts to settle in NY, the first ashen wings of a unified anger are beginning
to rise. Pain knows little of restraint and it saddens me, because I know that
misdirected hatred and unfettered anger could result in hate crimes against
Muslims and people of the Middle East living in the U.S. Unlike many instigators
on indymedia.org, I am not advocating a suppression of anger. That would be a
great injustice against those who died, but a greater injustice would be an unfocused
and wasted anger. We owe it to all those who have suffered to focus our anger
at the throat of injustice and to refrain from blind slashing into every dark
corner.
I think I'll steal
John's entry (from
http://www.johnlockhart.com/):
2001.09.11 03:45pm Judgement Day works both ways.
"When the buried infant shall be asked for what sin she was slain,
…then shall a soul know what it has produced."
—Qur'an The Darkening 81:8-9,14
As a side note, I've deliberately taken down my link to indymedia.org. Once an
attempt to funnel grassroots news, it is now a forum for people who either lack
the capacity grasp the full effect of world events or selfishly seek attention
at any cost. What these people fail to realize is that the anti-globalization
movement collapsed with the towers of the World Trade Center. And that's all I
have to say on that.
