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Have we changed?
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This was in another thread... I didn't want to shift the focus of that thread, so...

Murex: It's really interesting how American soicety has changed as a result of 9/11. I myself find it almost humerous.

I'm not so sure American society HAS changed. I think it/we just RESPONDED.
The sad truth of it all is that we probably DIDN'T change. Slapping the stars and stripes on your bumper doesn't make you a good person... yet that's just what everyone thought it was doing.

There's so much to say... but I think we can start here.


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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After the initial shock of seeing thousands of people die on live tv....well...I'm not sure if we've all entirely put that behind us.

This might sound a bit off, but on that morning I kind of felt like I'd been waiting my entire life for something like that to happen.

Something big.
Something HUGE.
Something that would change things forever...
And that's what we heard on the news so many times.

"This, folks, changes everything. Forever. America, nay, THE WORLD will never, ever, ever be the same.  Ever.  We're facing a new threat, a hidden threat....blah blah."

Simply put I think the general news reading populace is in a state of prolonged shock.
With references to "since 9/11" poppoing up all over, it remains on the forefront of many people's thoughts nationwide.
When it wears off, and I think it has been, more and more people will start to openly question the Bush administration.

What ever happened to Bin Laden?
Afghanistan is a barren bomb crater and now we're supposed to be all flustered about Saddam and his invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction?

"One country down, X more to go until that pesky (Bush created) Axis of Evil is dead!!!"

Oh, and guess what. 
Despite what we've all seen and heard over the years, the FBI, CIA and NSA are actually really behind in technology and need more money and workers to monitor the world to protect us from EVIL...
Oh, and... they need the ability to monitor the library system to see who checks out certain EVIL books, as well as other constituion-raping rights granted to them as a result of Bush's new found concern for "Homeland Security".  Yes it's all for our own good, of course. 


If I lived in another country I would think:
"Those Americans must be bloodthirsty."

Or maybe we are just that sick(stupid,lazy,ignorant,blind)...?
Well, I certainly don't think so.
Will we allow Bush and Co. to blantantly murder more people in our name so that they can have more oil and money all to themselves and we can continue living in an ever exapanding, world wide consumer wasteland owned by an insanely small number of coperate conglomerates?

I say no.  :wink:       

Edited by dee_N_ae (12/25/02 07:06 PM)

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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I never got the point of putting flags on your house or your car. What does that do, anyways?

Was it anything more than a cheap way of trying to look like you were doing something meaningful?

How much money did you spend on flags? Why didn't you just give that to the charity for the families of dead WTC workers? Or to aid groups in Afghanistan?

Putting a flag on your car or your house is such an empty gesture. It's almost disrespectful in its purposlesness.


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Edited by Phluck (12/25/02 07:50 PM)

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Phluck]
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Seems like it's just some sort of tribal markings. A small blotch of colors to make each other feel unified. A sense of comfort and programmed national 'pride'.
I wouldn't have anything against it if I thought the U.S. was anything to be the least little bit proud of.

To me it sort of sends the message that you're not one to use your brain that well.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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Great thread Schlorch! It is very thought-provoking.

Here's my take on it. Depends, just like the adult diaper.

I'd say as a collection of people it altered the psyche of the American people. But did it do so permanently is another story. I am not sure. It is certainly true that it altered the lives of many people, permanently. I am quite sure that New Yorkers in general are different today than they were before the attack. If nothing else they are more leary, and with good cause.

This thread is a timely one for me because I didn't see any video of the tragedy until Christmas. I do not have a TV and so I was insulated from the entire thing. That was good. As it was with the limited information I had it knocked me off my feet. I don't care to speculate what would have happened to me if I were to have watched the drama unfold before my very eyes. One of my Christmas presents was the documentary of 911 by CNN.

So I watched it, and I cried.

I have watched the people in public since the attack very closely to see how they responded. I noticed some very interesting things. I saw the shock wave that went through people on the first day and watched the Internet and noticed that nearly no one made assholish comments. Then at about the third day some comments started to show up as people began to normalize. Even this Christmas season where I live people were kinder to one another.

Notably, for good or evil, we elected a majority in Congress from the same political party as the President during his midterm and that is very rare. I think it is proof positive that there is something different in the American people. Also in our county we elected the first county commissioner from that party in 26 years.

Did it make us better people? I doubt it, but there is that possibility.

Tragedy is no cure-all for making anyone a better person. One only needs to watch a person go through it and see the various responses. Some become stronger and some wither away. Some become kinder and some bitter.

I would have hoped, more than anything, that the attack would have made the American people think, think deeper and introspectively. I have seen little evidence of that.

5 for the thread.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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Nothing has change and nothing will change, in terms of our human condition, did ww1 change anything or ww2, Vietnam?
American monkeys are no different than Iraqi monkeys or any other monkey in this world.(for all of you that think we are the good apes please wake up)
Just the other day I was taking with my neighbor, she was telling that when she was little the nazis came to her home stole all her family values destroyed her property and had them confined living in a basement for years, the saddest story I ever heard, you can see almost tears coming from her eyes.
2 minutes later she was telling me she was all for the total destruction of Iraq and Palestine, and that American should nuke them all.
I did not say anything to the old lady, but I keep thinking wow you would think after all her suffering that will change a person, will make her more sympathetic to others suffering, but no, if she could she will be the one to strike first with the sword.
I am almost out of hope with us Humans.


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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I cannot speak for the greater "we", however I can say that,yes I have changed.What was a vague suspicion of our ruling elite has become full blown distrust and a growing certainty that much of what takes place in the public eye is little more than slight of hand.Not to trivialize events of 9/11,but so much of the official reaction seems well planned to the point it seems there must have been advanced knowlege.So in the fact that I now view our government to be a larger danger than Iraq I have changed(and IMHO so have many others)

As to society as a hole(pun intended :grin:) I don't think we are any different than any large herd of humans in that war and violence are in human nature therefore will be expressed.Just as love and compassion are also expressed.

I believe the major change in humanity came when we gained the ability to kill at a distance,gaining insulation from the actual death of the enemy,as well as insulation from much of the emotional effect of taking life.This allows destructive emotions to accelerate without the emotional braking force of the in your face reality of taking a life.

So Sclorch I would have to say at this point IMO we have NOT changed we are just more free to express the destructive emotions of war.

The reactions of altruism also I do not believe to be unique to 9/11 either but rather a survival reaction of most societies under stress. Stress it seems brings out the best and worst in a population as if extremes are necessary to create the most survival scenarios for that society.

Another thought I've had is that folks I know have had a smoldering resentment over government which now has a new focus Terrorism, and much of the anger which was focused inward is now focused at the nebulous threat of terrorists.This has given the government a free hand it would not have had otherwise and silenced much opposition.This is bound to change our society and eventualy it's members. So have we changed since 9/11 not much.......yet .
Great thread Sclorch definately something folks should be thinking about :wink: WR


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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Most people in America are even more easily manipulated and lied to by the leaders and the media, than they we're before 9/11. Many of our rights are being taken away. The Bush administration is wiping it's ass with the constitution. People need to wake up. Check these out:

http://www.stop-fascism.org/oia.htm
http://www.stop-fascism.org/tips.htm
http://www.stop-fascism.org/official_government_projects.htm

I am afraid of what's going to happen in this country.


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: dee_N_ae]
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In reply to:
What ever happened to Bin Laden?
Afghanistan is a barren bomb crater and now we're supposed to be all flustered about Saddam and his invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction?

"One country down, X more to go until that pesky (Bush created) Axis of Evil is dead!!!"

Oh, and guess what.
Despite what we've all seen and heard over the years, the FBI, CIA and NSA are actually really behind in technology and need more money and workers to monitor the world to protect us from EVIL...
Oh, and... they need the ability to monitor the library system to see who checks out certain EVIL books, as well as other constituion-raping rights granted to them as a result of Bush's new found concern for "Homeland Security". Yes it's all for our own good, of course.


If I lived in another country I would think:
"Those Americans must be bloodthirsty."

Or maybe we are just that sick(stupid,lazy,ignorant,blind)...?
Well, I certainly don't think so.
Will we allow Bush and Co. to blantantly murder more people in our name so that they can have more oil and money all to themselves and we can continue living in an ever exapanding, world wide consumer wasteland owned by an insanely small number of coperate conglomerates?

I say no.



Like Chuck D said, you gotta fight the powers that be.

Like Karl Marx said, in a capitalist society, the state is nothing more than an administrative tool of the bourgeouisie. In the case of late-capitalist America 3M and Shell happen to be the bourgeouisie and the "administrative tool" of that elite class happens to have at its disposal a military budget higher than that of the rest of the world combined. Of course Bush is prepared to fight two wars at the same time. Piece of cake.

And the propaganda machine keeps churning, and the people the people who can still smile do so at their SUVs and x-boxes as the rich get filthier and the death count gets higher. Like Bob Dylan said. Nothing new here, except maybe the laws on the books that allow them to monitor EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO, if they ever get a mind to. But the government has been killing in the name of the machine for at least as long as long as anglo-saxons can remember, so why should we expect anything different? And a little fascism never hurt the economy, now did it?

The United States is, at its core, a protestant racist capitalist patriarchy. All four are keys to the reason why America is what it is right now, and the self-overcoming of those four defining characteristics is the only hope to stopping, what did they call it again, manifest destiny? This is a country for the rich, on the backs of the global poor. As any economically successful country is, including mine. But the US is the big one. And we are all responsible.

The whole axis of evil is merely a convenient excuse for Bush to perform his assigned task of expanding his fatherland's empire, the same task as any other figurehead monarch in history. It's an excuse along the lines of the red menace, which allowed us to gain access, militarily of course, to the vast resources of South America. There were so many of them damn darkies down there that we could easily afford to lose a few hundred thousand of them to kidnapping and execution by the governmental powers installed at our insistance. Hey they can't ALL sew Nikes for 20 cents an hour. What would those poor people do without us and the valuable jobs we provide?

Like I said, nothing new here. Nothing's changed.

Edited by sunyata (12/26/02 05:00 PM)

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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I also wonder why American''s hang up so many god damn flags. Us Canadians hang too many flags up too, just not as much. So Bush still hasn't caught Bin Laden, but he made sure a lot of the bearded men die anyways. I also am reminded of the bombing, one of the biggest things talked about other than the killing of a lot of people, was the economy, I thought that was kind of weird.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Earth_Droid]
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we'll see mcdonald's in Iraq within 10 years, most likely.... scary fuckers, these politicians :frown:


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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September 11th was very strange for me. The night before I watched Patton, and I thought to my self as I was drifting off to sleep, "I wonder when America will go to war again". I had nightmares that night about war. The next day I woke up, and my nightmares turned real. It definetely impacted me deeply, and America, and some Americans, especially those who where directly effected. But, I don't think it certainly didn't change me. I've never dwelled on bad things, but i never forget them. September 11 was just another sign of how evil man can be, and how evil the world can be.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Remy]
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But if you put a flag sticker on your car, you'll be making the world a better place.


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What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Sclorch]
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9/11 diffently changed me, it made me think about what the hell us and the americans did to provoke it, and i wanted to learn more. i first heard about it when i was in the car with my dad going to the doctors. i didnt think much of it, and when i heard about another plane and the pentagon i figured it wouldnt be major news, i was young and nieve. i still am, but im slowly inproving..i think anyway. for me 9/11 was the starting point of a new life, an educated one. i just wish everyone else went that way with me, instead all my friends are like "BUSH IS A GOD, ISLAM IS EVIL!" and other shit like that. kids are so dumb.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: PinkEchoes]
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9-11 has made me realize... HOW STUPID PEOPLE ARE! There is such a thing as overusing flags, and people have made such a big deal about it. Not trying to sound offensive, but there are still many people who are still talking about 9-11 and haven't yet gotten over it. Its over with, been here and gone, theres no reason to keep living in 2001. Go on with life.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: TinMan]
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i agree, its talked about way to much, and the flag thing was just annoying. but it did really change my way of thinking, now im involved in all sorts of stuff, and meeting all kinds of cool people. and im learning alot more. for sure made me realize how much the media changes peoples minds, and brain washed them completely. people are very dumb, hope i can get the hell out of this dumb hole and into the smart groove.

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Re: Have we changed? [Re: PinkEchoes]
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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people." -Noam Chomsky

I would add the group "terrorists" to that list.

What's the best way to control a large group of people? Through fear.


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: Adamist]
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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people." -Noam Chomsky

I would also add the groups "businessmen," "Christians," "second amendment advocates," "conservatives," etc. to that list.


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Re: Have we changed? [Re: PinkEchoes]
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A flag sticker on someone's car just shows that they are stupid. If your really think about why people do it, you can come up with the answer that they are mindless idiots.

just don't seem to see the bigger pitcure. I think flags promote segragation as well as unification. After all, we are all humans on this earth right? Now I hear my mother stereotyping people who look like they could be middle-eastern. It's good to be protective and all, but you should act the same when it comes to anybody. If she had to choose between a white doctor instead of a middle-eastern doctor, she would go with the white doctor instead of sying 'I don't care.'.


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What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?


Edited by Murex (12/27/02 02:52 PM)

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