flyer delivery
marina hand
construction
dishwasher
cook
forklift driver
phone surveyor
yard hand
bag boy
salad server
language tutor
bureaucrat
secretary
law stuff
. . . so far
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Tear-Roar
I'm not exactly the bullseye as far as terrorism goes. An infidel without question but useful only in terms of numbers in the event of a bombing. The count at Al Qaeda headquarters would go something like - 2 marines, 3 Right wing Christians, an oil executive, and a vaguely sympathetic guy who's interested in the cultural appropriation of the veil as imperialist symbol of the "other" (or something). I still think religion in general is unneccessary medievalism but if the western world was divided into a dart board I'd be the outer edge, wide and easy to hit but not very satisfying.
(on a separate note, I had to restrain myself from getting indignant in my condemnation of religion. I'm always sort of amazed at how many people have made a career out of being self-righteously indignant. Comedians, media personalities, web commenters. . . how do you get to be so . . . sure?? Anyway, that's another post.)
For the above reasons my musing on the cultural impact of terrorism is probably a little irrelevant. Here's what I keep noticing though. There's been a culture shift in the general public's reaction to terrorism. On 911 for the most part the passengers sat still scared shitless of the brown dudes with box-cutters. Generally speaking, in a crowd the imperative was to hold tight and hope someone else dealt with the situation. Fair enough. For the most part it's pretty rare that someone has to actually fight about something. We have a military for that. BUT the military is USELESS against terrorists. It's busily fighting away to little or no effect and the result is that we need some modern heroes. Not to get all hyperbolic here (these colours don't run!!!) but now that people realize there is no organized mechanism for dealing with plane hijackers we're getting our tackle on with the testicle terrorists. Knights in shining armour dewds!
(on a separate note, I had to restrain myself from getting indignant in my condemnation of religion. I'm always sort of amazed at how many people have made a career out of being self-righteously indignant. Comedians, media personalities, web commenters. . . how do you get to be so . . . sure?? Anyway, that's another post.)
For the above reasons my musing on the cultural impact of terrorism is probably a little irrelevant. Here's what I keep noticing though. There's been a culture shift in the general public's reaction to terrorism. On 911 for the most part the passengers sat still scared shitless of the brown dudes with box-cutters. Generally speaking, in a crowd the imperative was to hold tight and hope someone else dealt with the situation. Fair enough. For the most part it's pretty rare that someone has to actually fight about something. We have a military for that. BUT the military is USELESS against terrorists. It's busily fighting away to little or no effect and the result is that we need some modern heroes. Not to get all hyperbolic here (these colours don't run!!!) but now that people realize there is no organized mechanism for dealing with plane hijackers we're getting our tackle on with the testicle terrorists. Knights in shining armour dewds!
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