22
tags: [journal]
It’s not 23, but 22 years since 9/11. Two planes crashed against the twin towers, in New York City, another in the pentagon, and another didn’t reach its destination.
It was earlier this morning that it hit me. There are adults nowadays, or rather children who are in the 18-22 gap, that weren’t born or have living memory of this historic event. Curious days were those, in which I, a child, trembled and felt restrictions from this event.
At the very least it was real, can’t say the same about many other so called crisis. Or was it really? Instead of addressing the underlying issues surrounding this so called wave of terrorism, the powers simply invaded a bunch of countries. Some of these were adversarial to the so called organization that carried the attacks, and didn’t invade an almost openly supportive one.
Yes, I see you Pakistan.
It’s rather precious of these so called moralists to talk about terrorism, amidst a single attack that, unfortunately, took the lives of some 3.5 thousand people. The consequences of the retaliation were amidst several millions.
Europe had several terrorist organizations, which had their fair share of “collateral damage”. These would at least rival the so called Islamists. Ask any European about those, and more times than not, they aren’t even properly aware of them.
Even Portugal had some. My small paradise had terrorists. Well, even many of the rather distasteful sort went into hiding here.
FP25 Were a rather curious one, or the “Brigadas Revolucionárias” a kind of predecessor. Well, there are for certain many that I either don’t know or don’t remember.
Propaganda is an adorable thing. Ideology permeates everything, even your eyes and mind have its taint. Think about it. Isn’t everyone a democrat, until their arguments falter or they lose the elections?
Got to love “democracy”.