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2/05/2003 02:36:00 PM | Jared Alessandroni Just because you can't wrap you little head around something... Doesn't mean it's okay that you don't try. Several people have argued about my inherent cynicism about our country because of a recent post on the Challenger - I mean Columbia - tragedy. Right, I italicized tragedy. It's funny, Jon, I was talking to this kid from Cornell, one of those I'm not racist, but look at the numbers, kill the Arabs kinda guys, and he made the same case for these people dying for a cause, but for all you argued at the hollowness of my argument, you certainly and no one has really made such an argument for what the cause they supposedly died for was. Scientific? This nation doesn't care about science, and if you talk to all the people who dream of going into space, science or world peace - ironically one of the points made by our peer at Cornell - these are not the reasons. People want to fly to the stars, and they add reasons later. Not that this is bad or anything, and in fact, I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a little kid, too. But you can't talk about higher goals, higher anything, and in fact, it kills me that no one sees the problem with the logic. This elite group of people lived a dream, they did what many people have said, i'd like to do that before I die, and the kicker is, they made it. And we're mourning for them. Mourning. And saying we're obsessed with symbols is not psychoanalysis, it's social commentary. Moses said it, too. In any case, my post, lest you actually read it, was in reference to the politicizing of the issue, how Israel was like, oh, poor us, and, to quote myself, how we were similarly politicizing. But I reassert, not that we will change, not that we even should, not that anyone else is much better (though most other countries' news sources actually talk about other stuff), not that our country is doomed because of it - just like I said in my original post, it sucks that all we can think about are symbols, and maybe you Fox News don't talk so mean 'bout my couhntray people can actually respond to that - can actually tell me it doesn't suck. I feel like Hitler had a few arguments on the subject. perma link |
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