Sunday, December 28, 2003
(12:20 PM) | Anonymous:
Conspiracy theory
A widow of one of the victims of 9/11 has filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration. Oddly this isn't on the front page of any newspapers, topping the headlines on the cable networks or even a big deal to the blogosphere. The reason seems to be clear; the charge seems too incredible to be real even if we all know it is. Fantastic events like planes crashing into the twin towers in New York exist in a sort of hyper-real realm where we couldn't deny that it was happening since it was televised but we could deny that this event came out of reality. These events come out of imagination, of our movie screens and come crashing not so unexpectedly into our lives. As such I am waiting in anticipation of a dirty bomb to blow up in a major city; I know I am not alone. These fears we broadcast on CNN and talk about when we are together.
Yet when something not nearly as fantastic, like the Bush administration allowing 9/11 to happen or at least using it to deceive the American public, it is unbelievable simply because it is believable. This seems to be a tautology but in the concrete world it is what the media and the masses are acting out. Hopefully the election can bring this stuff into a more fantastic light so that people will finally deal with it.
Moving from politics to my personal life in spurts, Christmas was insane and I have been trying to post since Christmas Eve but have been too tired to. I know, I sound like a 40 year-old wife but I swear it is true. And I had a headache.
I have about two weeks before Winter Quarter begins and I am looking forward to it. I get to tackle Kant and Heidegger, Tragedy and French and Ecclesiology and Politics. It sounds like my kind of quarter. Though I am envious of Adam and his relentless march towards Absolute Knowledge and can't wait until I get to learn about old man Hegel.
Where the hell has Jared Woodard been? Get back to blogging you lazy pervert!
My mother-in-law gave me a book entitled The Purpose-Driven Life that was not on my wishlist. Unfortunately I feel guilty trying to get money back for it since she wrote in the inside cover and I have considered turning it into a book review but fear that I would become much too depressed reading it. Maybe I am being too cynical about the book, after all the author of The Prayer of Jabez liked it.
*UPDATE*
I found another piece of fantastic news that can be believed because we have seen it acted (that is pretend) on screen. Linked for Sullywatch this story of the spitting peace activists.
