I realised yesterday that people can be quite dumb...
I know I'm stating the obvious again and no I'm not a misanthrope but sometimes I am surprised by the amount of stupidity some people can dish out.
There is a whole cult of people that argue about how the WTC was "really" brought down and whole sets of arguments and counterarguments, some scientific some pseudoscientific and some plain stupid, and I have to admit I almost got caught up into that because I believe there is something more than what we are lead to believe.
However, noone seems to notice (or maybe someone does but they're not saying anything) that this is pretty convenient isn't it? We all start to argue about the melting point of steel or structural jargon and we avoid asking other more important questions like: can we honestly believe that the most powerful nation on the planet (it's unfortunate but it's true) was caught while sleeping and was too numb to react? can we honestly believe that all the nations that the USA has bombed the fuck out of in the past few decades actually desired such intervention?
... and other unsettling questions like that.
So, the next time somebody tells me to respect the memory of the victims of 911, I will stop, stare, tell them to fuck off and promptly ask them when was it they last shed a tear about the Iraqi children that died because of diarrhea after the Gulf invasion in '91 or the Afghani people that get shot while trying to make a living by growing opium poppies.
I'm tired of this power game, can we play something else?
