Wasn’t sure when I was supposed to post again. Broadcasting the little trivial details of my day to day life seemed almost… I dunno, offensive in light of recent world events. I cancelled piano class (but my piano teacher was pretty upset about all of this too, so it was a mutual cancellation) and haven’t really been in much of a mood lately. I’ve had a couple of people over but don’t think I’ve made very good company.

You’d think I was practically there, what with the way I’ve been moping about all of this. I live in Canada, I’m not really anywhere near New York and I don’t know all that many Americans (and all the ones I do know are fine).
Still, I wanted to know who did this, who had the audacity to end the lives of as many as 5000 people without any political posturing or religious fanatic messages.

Last night though, I think I finally reached my -media saturation point-. I had the day off so I spent the day of mourning with my family. I’ve watched more TV in the past 4 days than I have in the past year and a half combined. And somewhere around 6 o’clock I just couldn’t listen anymore. It was time for shutting off the tv and the radio and going outside to sit in the sun.

At this point, I think the constant 24hour media coverage of the event and recapping over and over and over is simply serving to condition the american people into frenzied mob. Bush’s response, a call to arms, is the wrong
response. It will only guarantee more bloodshed. Nobody seems to be able to see, including “moral leader” Billy Graham, that carpet-bombing countries where terrorists hide out is vengeance and not justice. I can only hope that
Bush’s tactical advisors have made him aware that indiscriminate destruction in the name of vengance is going to have the opposite effect to what he’s trying to achieve.