Saturday, March 06, 2004
Back around the time of the attacks on September 11, 2001, I wrote some essays which I had no idea what to do with. I didn't know about blogs at the time and I was too shy to send them in to newspapers.
But they sort of itch my hard drive, so I think I'll post them even at this late date. Looking at them now, my opinions of that time have only been validated by subsequent events (in my opinion anyhow!). Which doesn't surprise me, because it seemed thunderingly obvious even then that the U.S. government was haring off on a completely wrong track, in its usual misguided fashion. Much as I dislike the current U.S. administration, I have to say that what it's doing is not essentially different from the type of thing that has often been done by administrations before it, only more so.
This may not be the most appropriate place to post this sort of political stuff, but I guess it'll do for now. I've never been an intensely political person, but 9/11/01 changed that, much to my displeasure. In self-defence, I had to start gathering information. However, the essays I wrote back then were written before I had gathered very much if any.
I hate having to think about this kind of political stuff, frankly - my personal preference is to moon endlessly over the personal anguishes of fictional characters. Having to deal with reality is a bitch.
More to follow.
But they sort of itch my hard drive, so I think I'll post them even at this late date. Looking at them now, my opinions of that time have only been validated by subsequent events (in my opinion anyhow!). Which doesn't surprise me, because it seemed thunderingly obvious even then that the U.S. government was haring off on a completely wrong track, in its usual misguided fashion. Much as I dislike the current U.S. administration, I have to say that what it's doing is not essentially different from the type of thing that has often been done by administrations before it, only more so.
This may not be the most appropriate place to post this sort of political stuff, but I guess it'll do for now. I've never been an intensely political person, but 9/11/01 changed that, much to my displeasure. In self-defence, I had to start gathering information. However, the essays I wrote back then were written before I had gathered very much if any.
I hate having to think about this kind of political stuff, frankly - my personal preference is to moon endlessly over the personal anguishes of fictional characters. Having to deal with reality is a bitch.
More to follow.
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