#1 When I die I don’t want anyone to have a moment of silence in my honor, I want a moment of productivity. Write in a journal, pay a bill or work some overtime. That, I think, would be a more fitting honor to me then sitting around quiet for a few minutes. One of my friends suggested that he wanted a moment of profanity in his honor. Cool by me. But a moment of silence just seems so freaking defeatist, particularly on 9/11. If I had died on that day I would much rather have a moment of ass kicking dedicated to me.
That’s when it struck me that in America over the years we have been conditioned to remember our defeats more then we have been our victories. We all can recall at least the month Pearl Harbor was attacked but can any of us remember the day Japan surrendered to the overwhelming power of our nation? By remembering our defeats we are conditioned to accept them and focus on the negativity of those events. It has to be way more productive to focus on our successes then on the negative. What I am saying is it is a commie plan to condition us to defeat. OK that may be a bit much but you get my point.
#2 By focusing our attention on the negative we don’t see the good that is going on all around us. For instance we always hear the death toll of American troops in the war on terror but seldom do we hear about the number of the enemy our men have smoked. The rising death toll of Americans is played like a Baptist tambourine during revival but, there is never a mention of all the pigs our boy’s have laid to rest in their permanent dirt nap. Clearly no one can disagree that by doing this those apposed to American strength in our own country use this negative focus to shape public opinion against their political opponents. So did you know we are killing them at least by a 6 to 1 ratio? Yea we are, how do you think America would react if they knew that? That looks a little somthing like this.
Or like this.
Almost every Hollywood movie paints our soldiers out to be conflicted if not crazy. Combine this with the constantly repeated death toll and constant reinforcing of the attack and defeat on 9/11 and you have a culture that is being trained to be defeatist.
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ReplyDeleteI think moments of silence are good once or twice after an event when done in true reflection. But every year seems like "inflation of reverence" and not worth as much as it used to be, especially when there isn't real feeling or emotion to back the act.
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I say in honor of 9/11 we take two of the terrorists detainees that we have in Guantanamo and lay them on their backs, get them "excited" and then detonate explosives blowing holes in their "twin towers". Nothing like a little cruel and unusual punishment to celebrate the anniversary of 9/11, and to put those terrorists in their place right M.Galt!?
Hi I am James and I say inappropriate things.
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Moments of silence are outward expressions of our inward emptiness that was caused by the death of someone special. The laughter they shared with us, those little bits of wisdom have been silenced by such tragedy. It can be emotionally healthy to recognize such things in our lives.
Hi, I'm James and I say pseudo-psychology sounding things to give the impression that I care for the feelings of others all the while wishing that life could move on because the more we have ceremonies remembering 9/11 with no reconstruction at ground zero makes me think that America isn't as strong as we wish we were and that the thing holding us back is the bureaucratic headaches that seem to compound the misery of those who lost loved ones while the rest of the country feels compelled to have a moment of silence over a pile of failed efforts in the form of remaining rubble piles so we don't feel guilty about not "remembering 9/11" every other day of our lives because for some reason we have this idea that if we condensed our compassion into one moment of silence we don't have to deal with it again for a whole year when in actuality the healthy expression of such an event is to have fireworks or some other celebration to signify that we in fact are not dead or defeated but are still the greatest country on the earth (for the time being) and will demonstrate our resolve to be such.
My English teacher would be so proud of such a run on sentence.
Hi, I am Sarah and I say James writes too many boring comments.
ReplyDeleteYour mother writes too many boring comments...
ReplyDeleteJames you are absolutly correct my mom would not only write a boring comment but also it would make NO SENCE. But that point is Mute since she does not post. :)
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