[lit-ideas] Re: Iran (2), First Front
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:55:36 -0500
Ursula: Mike is not abusing America. He's standing
up for a vision of America about to disappear. . .
. You're trashing my world and my children's
children's world.
I understand this feeling. How many times since
9/11 have I woke up with the sense that this world
must be some sort of dream...and then realized,
no, it was the aftermath of the Islamist attack,
many people had died, heat forcing them from the
top of the burning towers, leaping to their death
into a pink cloud of vaporized blood. And worse,
that there was an ongoing conflict about the
response, part of the population hating the other
part's attempts to make it right, the situation
complicated by profiteering corporations cashing
in on homeland security, conspiracy theorists
blaming Bush for the attack, and so on.
Oh to only make it go away! To forget the smell of
incinerated bodies. To construct the kind of
denial that I could believe in, to negotiate it
all away, to use a magic charm, to invent a wall
against time, to just walk away from it into the
mid-90s or the late '80s which I disliked so much
at the time but now regard as a sort of happy time.
But there is no way back to that, only forward.
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