The "normals"
Most people that will be reading this blog, at the start anyways, will not consider themselves to be "normal" people. Most of my friends are intellectuals on the surface but bohemians at heart. They read Chomsky, Zinn maybe even Mao or Lenin. They drink far too often and (hopefully) have sex freely though (hopefully, again) safely. We feel almost like a loose knit group, a community even, that values not just life but the fullfillment of life's joys and tragedies at the same time.
With the wars and "natural" disasters we are told to accept as part of everyday life, now happening almost daily, we stop and reflect on the meaning of life. Also on ways these horrible things could of been prevented, at least I know I do.
How about the "normal" people? The millions and millions who spend a significant part of their lives watching (and believing) TV. The ones who take the "news" as sacroscant?? The people who don't realize that we live in a culture where truth is most closely represented on a cartoon show about a made up family who live in an unknown state in the US rather than on so called reality shows??
Do the events in South East Asia and the Middle East make them shudder to think about life and it's value??
It's funny how memory of events long ago help you understand the present. I remember my 6th grade teacher asking us what we thought about the union carbide gas leak disaster in India long ago. One of my fellow classmates remarked, and I will remember this for the rest of my life, "My Mom says that it's God punishing them for not believing in Jesus". My teacher thought this as plausible. He was a deacon at his church. He also sung to us hippie songs such as blowing in the wind every friday.
Weird.
I am now counting the mintues for some 700 Club reject to spout that garbage any day now. Remember, 9-11, to these fundamentalist culture killing freaks, was a type of payback (blowback?) from God. The crime? Allowing abortions and homos to run around freely. I haven't even heard Bin Laden ever say something as stupid as that. Although I am sure Bin Laden wouldn't be crazy about said homos strutting around any caves in Pakistan.
I am hoping aganist hope that the "normals" will not brush this umimaganiable disaster under their emotional rugs in this fashion. Are "they" thinking now "Damn, maybe if these countires weren't under so much debt and their infrastructure so shitty, more people would of been saved"?. Do the "normals" even think this way?? Do they know that the floods in Haiti that killed thousands were not "natural" disasters but man made because of de-forestation??
Is it pompous of me to ask..do the "normals" even think? Do the "normals" even care?
Nothing surprises me anymore. I mean the Red Sox won the world series for geebus' sake!!
Maybe the end is nigh.....
With the wars and "natural" disasters we are told to accept as part of everyday life, now happening almost daily, we stop and reflect on the meaning of life. Also on ways these horrible things could of been prevented, at least I know I do.
How about the "normal" people? The millions and millions who spend a significant part of their lives watching (and believing) TV. The ones who take the "news" as sacroscant?? The people who don't realize that we live in a culture where truth is most closely represented on a cartoon show about a made up family who live in an unknown state in the US rather than on so called reality shows??
Do the events in South East Asia and the Middle East make them shudder to think about life and it's value??
It's funny how memory of events long ago help you understand the present. I remember my 6th grade teacher asking us what we thought about the union carbide gas leak disaster in India long ago. One of my fellow classmates remarked, and I will remember this for the rest of my life, "My Mom says that it's God punishing them for not believing in Jesus". My teacher thought this as plausible. He was a deacon at his church. He also sung to us hippie songs such as blowing in the wind every friday.
Weird.
I am now counting the mintues for some 700 Club reject to spout that garbage any day now. Remember, 9-11, to these fundamentalist culture killing freaks, was a type of payback (blowback?) from God. The crime? Allowing abortions and homos to run around freely. I haven't even heard Bin Laden ever say something as stupid as that. Although I am sure Bin Laden wouldn't be crazy about said homos strutting around any caves in Pakistan.
I am hoping aganist hope that the "normals" will not brush this umimaganiable disaster under their emotional rugs in this fashion. Are "they" thinking now "Damn, maybe if these countires weren't under so much debt and their infrastructure so shitty, more people would of been saved"?. Do the "normals" even think this way?? Do they know that the floods in Haiti that killed thousands were not "natural" disasters but man made because of de-forestation??
Is it pompous of me to ask..do the "normals" even think? Do the "normals" even care?
Nothing surprises me anymore. I mean the Red Sox won the world series for geebus' sake!!
Maybe the end is nigh.....
posted by djshoghi at 03:19
2 Comments:
So, I heard from a local Columbusian (as in the Ohio brand), in response to the 25K+ dead, that a vacationing couple from Columbus died as a result of the tsunami.
Really? I sarcastically implored. And that is what makes Ohioans interested in this natural disaster?I hear ya, dj.
I have no idea what 'normality'involves. I do like your writing though.
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