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Today Kay Is:
Terrified of getting gum disease. *breaks out in panic, hyperventilates, frets to the point of being unable to study for tomorrow's midterm!*
You probably think I'm kidding, if you don't know me well.
Edit -- On A More Important Note, Because God Forbid I Should Post Anything Short Of Two Screens Worth Of Text:
I did attempt to do the next Ethics reading for the midterm, and I wound up forgetting to be terrified of my dentist's ominous words of DOOM from two months ago. I was reading an interview with Osama bin Laden.
The man is very clever, but thinking no more clearly than anybody else. He defies his own religion in attempts to protect it.
But what I found to be the most horrible was the fact that he said it was okay to kill civilians because Americans do it where he lives all the time. (True. He cited, specifically, the atomic bombs.) He says that we're terrorists every bit as much as they are, and I thought, that's easy for him to say, but the war is being fought where he is, there's going to be civilian casualties; it's different when he goes into peaceful territory and kills thousands of innocents without warning.
Then I thought, of course the war is where he is. We're shoving our way into a situation that has nothing to do with us, safe in the knowledge that we're way the hell away from them and don't need to worry about their army turning on our civilians the way we turn on theirs, and if they do, we can gasp and go, "But they're not involved!"
If the war was on our land, they would be involved. I wonder if we'd use an atomic bomb on their peaceful civilian cities if the war was on our turf.
But he says, he doesn't want to kill civilians any more than the Americans want to kill civilians.
At the end of the interview they asked him to give a message to the American people. He said that our government is disloyal to us; we are fooled by their clever words and allow them to misrepresent us to the world.
"We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests instead of to [Israeli] interests. [...] This is my message to the American people. I urge them to find a serious administration that acts in their interest and does not attack people and violate their honor and pilfer their wealth."
It made me feel ashamed to live in a democracy. At least in Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn't willfully choose tyrants to misrepresent them.
I'm glad I'll be back in the US and capable of voting come Election Day. Suddenly I feel like it's my responsibility. Pretty sad when Osama bin Laden can guilt-trip me into patriotism.
Does anybody else miss the olden days, like, the fifteenth century? When two countries could go to war with each other, completely annihilate each other if they felt like it, and nobody felt morally obliged to go sticking their dicks where they don't belong for absolutely no reason besides "it's my moral responsibility"?
The white man's fucking burden.
Terrified of getting gum disease. *breaks out in panic, hyperventilates, frets to the point of being unable to study for tomorrow's midterm!*
You probably think I'm kidding, if you don't know me well.
Edit -- On A More Important Note, Because God Forbid I Should Post Anything Short Of Two Screens Worth Of Text:
I did attempt to do the next Ethics reading for the midterm, and I wound up forgetting to be terrified of my dentist's ominous words of DOOM from two months ago. I was reading an interview with Osama bin Laden.
The man is very clever, but thinking no more clearly than anybody else. He defies his own religion in attempts to protect it.
But what I found to be the most horrible was the fact that he said it was okay to kill civilians because Americans do it where he lives all the time. (True. He cited, specifically, the atomic bombs.) He says that we're terrorists every bit as much as they are, and I thought, that's easy for him to say, but the war is being fought where he is, there's going to be civilian casualties; it's different when he goes into peaceful territory and kills thousands of innocents without warning.
Then I thought, of course the war is where he is. We're shoving our way into a situation that has nothing to do with us, safe in the knowledge that we're way the hell away from them and don't need to worry about their army turning on our civilians the way we turn on theirs, and if they do, we can gasp and go, "But they're not involved!"
If the war was on our land, they would be involved. I wonder if we'd use an atomic bomb on their peaceful civilian cities if the war was on our turf.
But he says, he doesn't want to kill civilians any more than the Americans want to kill civilians.
At the end of the interview they asked him to give a message to the American people. He said that our government is disloyal to us; we are fooled by their clever words and allow them to misrepresent us to the world.
"We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests instead of to [Israeli] interests. [...] This is my message to the American people. I urge them to find a serious administration that acts in their interest and does not attack people and violate their honor and pilfer their wealth."
It made me feel ashamed to live in a democracy. At least in Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn't willfully choose tyrants to misrepresent them.
I'm glad I'll be back in the US and capable of voting come Election Day. Suddenly I feel like it's my responsibility. Pretty sad when Osama bin Laden can guilt-trip me into patriotism.
Does anybody else miss the olden days, like, the fifteenth century? When two countries could go to war with each other, completely annihilate each other if they felt like it, and nobody felt morally obliged to go sticking their dicks where they don't belong for absolutely no reason besides "it's my moral responsibility"?
The white man's fucking burden.
