Saturday, September 12, 2009
A simpler, gentler time...
"Boisterous cable gabber Glenn Beck laments the return to normalcy. The website for Beck’s "9/12 Project" waxes nostalgic for the day after the worst terrorist attack in American history, a time when “We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the greatest nation ever created.” Beck’s purpose with the Project? “We want to get everyone thinking like it is September 12th, 2001 again.”
My God: why in the world would anyone want that? Yes, 9/12 brought moving displays of patriotism and a comforting sense of national unity, but that hardly made up for the fear, rage and sorrow that dominated the national mood and at times clouded our vision."
http://genehealy.com/2009/09/good-news-911-didnt-change-everything/
# posted by smacky @ 10:35 AM 
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I don't think the idea of wanting the patriotism and feeling of unity from that first month or so after the horror of 9/11 is a bad thing at all. Yes, it was mired in fear, rage, and sorrow, but the behavior afterward provided a sterling example of the American ideal if only for a short while. It was nice to see, but I wish the circumstances for that brief sea change were wholly different. I guess it's the whole looking for the positive out of the overwhlemingly negative.
That said, Beck essentially equates that American ideal to ignorant, often racist values espoused by the Tea Baggers. So the whole 9/12 Project is a fucking sham.
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That said, Beck essentially equates that American ideal to ignorant, often racist values espoused by the Tea Baggers. So the whole 9/12 Project is a fucking sham.
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