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Gorillaz on 9/11
I am a huge fan of the Gorillaz, and I found this quote from their book, Rise of the Ogre, (available in hardcover now in most countries), very, very interesting, and almost exactly how I felt about 9/11...
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2D: I remember when I turned the TV on and saw that image: of the plane going into the first tower. It literally took the air out of my lungs. Just the impact in my head of understanding what I was seeing. A plane crashing into a tower...that tower. It just made me literally fall backwards. Just that moment of realization of, like, the full implications of what this meant. The atmosphere where we were wasn't dark, not even moody, just really odd...fragile. No one knew what was gonna happen next.
Russel: It felt like the world could explode any second. I think I slept twenty minutes that whole night...maybe an hour the next. A lot of terrible seeds were sown that day.
Noodle: It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.
Russel: It felt like the world could explode any second. I think I slept twenty minutes that whole night...maybe an hour the next. A lot of terrible seeds were sown that day.
Noodle: It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.
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I said the same thing to my boyfriend as Noodle said. We were hurt for no reason and we not the only ones who were hurt. The whole world was. Million of tears were shead.
Actually, I dunno if any of you actually read the book but Russel goes on to talk a little more about it and how it's almost like a pornography, that it just needs to get bigger and bigger, and the media frenzy surrounding it focused too much on the enemy and not enough on the loss of life.
Very interesting indeed.
but this is probally due to me not being american
I just herd "Feel Good" on the radio. It was on 100 America's greatest hits. It was on 59.
but this is probally due to me not being american
I totally agree, actually, that's one of the smartest things I've heard on the topic. The war is more of a disaster than the event itself. Really interesting.
The war is a major issue that I don't think anyone has a solution for, and as terrible as 9/11 was, you're right that there is no comparison. I know I will never forget 9/11, nor will most Americans, but now there are some who Americans simply ignore the war in Iraq because they think it doesn't affect them. Instead of improving our image around the world, or allowing billions of dollars to be sent to the Gulf Coast to aid hurricane victims or to be used to remedy internal problems, the situation in Iraq has weakened the U.S. immensely, which is terrible after the strength and solidarity we all felt immediately after 9/11. That day caused a lot of Americans to sit up and take notice of what's going on elsewhere in the world, but the consequences of our reaction in Afghanistan and Iraq are unacceptable.
Sorry if my rambling doesn't make much sense, but I am really sick of the current state of this country and our inability to find solutions to the problems we create.
I'm sorry if I'm being to hard of if it sounds that i'm blaming someone, I just think that people should do something about this.
Yep, 9/11 was pretty scary. I live in New York City, so I guess for me it was particularly scary? I actually saw the first tower after it got hit. I was walking to school with my dad, and we saw all these people standing around in the middle of the street looking up, and then we saw one of the towers with a gigantic smoking hole in it. I remember the hole was kind of shaped like a plane. Then I went into my classroom and no one had any idea what had just happened. I told my teacher and she didn't believe me.
Then when my mom came to pick me up later we were running down the middle of the street together trying to get home and I remember looking behind me and just seeing this massive cloud of gray smoke where the towers used to be. I remember seeing people walking around who were completely covered in the dust from when they collapsed.
When my parents told me that it wasn't an accident, I said, "You mean somebody did this on purpose?!"
The war is just a joke. I mean, what are our kids dying for?