I was just strolling into class in my Animation course (college) when I saw a few classmates hovering over one guy's computer. I asked what was up and they said "The WTC buildings in New York are on fire" and were watching reports on the web.
I thought "well there ya go...." then went to my desk to start my work.... at the time, nobody knew what was going on except that the buildings were on fire and the reports were being a bit vague. By the time any of them loaded any of the reports up, the second plane already smacked into the 2nd building and the reports were kind of scattered with information.
A few minutes later, I heard a couple of them say something in surprise and I said "what's up?"
"One just collapsed!"
"Damn.... that's gotta suck." and I went back to my work. I was 21 at the time, didn't know much about the WTC, nor at that time did I really give a damn.
About 30 minutes later or an hour later (can't remember exactly) one of our instructors told us there was a terrorist attack in New York and they were sending us all home for the day.... which didn't make any sense to me since it was in the US / New York, not in Canada and none of us knew anybody there.
I just went back home to play some Team Fortress Classic for the day.
Being perfectly honest, the whole 9/11 thing didn't affect me in any remote fashion, with the exception of 9/11 dominating every channel, every radio broadcast for the next year or so, to the point it was just plain annoying.
I might have had some sort of empathy (or is it sympathy?.... meh) if the incident wasn't so over saturated for the next 2+ years everywhere you turned. It eventually just grew into annoyance, where everybody and their dog had to show their various angles of the building collapsing, what they saw, how they felt......
Two planes flew into them, they caught on fire, they collapsed, a bunch of people died, the US went off to war..... how many more frigging angles and video footage do we all have to see & hear about it? Do you guys expect to discover something new from yet another video of the same thing happening over and over again??
Do you people just love to see the same tragedy occur over and over again to make yourselves feel miserable for what happened to other people?
Yeah, it was a bad thing... it's time to do what most in the US did this past 9/11 and move the hell on.
I suppose next year someone will come across a satellite video of them collapsing.
And the year after that, someone will come across a CCTV video from Starbucks showing them collapse.
For such a tragedy you all wished never happened and makes you all sick, you guys sure know how to continually sensationalize it & throw it in everybody's faces time and time again...... as well as sit there staring at yet another video of this happening all over again to make you feel sick again.
Now I'm more than aware what I am posting is going to get a few neg reps (like I care), but maybe I should better explain why I hold the position I do:
#1 - thousands of people are dying all around the world every single day of our lives.... sometimes naturally, other times by horrific violence from others, regardless if you'd call them innocent or not.... yet very little is ever talked about over those people dying because that's the way life is.... most people's indifference from those people suffering and dying is no different from my indifference over 9/11. Sh*t happens and those people dying in 9/11 are no more important than anybody else who dies in the world, other than the fact that it happened in a location and in a way most didn't expect to occur. Apparently 9/11 is so much worse because there's so much media coverage & amateur footage covering what happened.
#2 - it seems that even though in 98% of the footage & coverage of the WTC attacks, you don't actually see people dying, it's still far worse than seeing some video footage of someone getting stoned to death, or hacked apart by machetes, or set on fire by some crazed mob.... maybe that's due to all those people around the world being different from the rest of us and isn't so bad, when the people in the WTC's were people like you and I, and it's easier for us to put ourselves in their shoes.... or the shoes of their loved ones.
Yeah, 9/11 was a bad thing that shouldn't have happened, but it did.... and a lot worse occurred after 9/11 where even more innocent people died at the hands of the US's wrath from 9/11..... regardless if it was justified or not.
I'm someone who believes in Eye for and Eye.... but the US's response went far beyond Eye for and Eye and they went after anybody who was in their way, completely indiscriminately. They could have showed the rest of the world what real justice is and show everybody that the West knows how to handle these sorts of situations in a just & civilized manner, but instead, Bush and his goons used those dead people from 9/11 as an excuse to unleash hell across the world while dragging their allies into the mess at the same time, tarnishing the memory of those people who died from 9/11, as well as those who suffer illnesses from 9/11. Bush made the US look just as bad as the "Bad Guys" wanted them to look and did a damn good job of it, that the US quickly lost any and all respect from both their enemies and most of their allies.
Some see 9/11 as a tragedy..... while others see 9/11 as the beginning of a larger tragedy.
I just find is sickening how so many people go "oh it makes my stomach turn, it makes me sad" etc.
Unless you were there, unless you directly knew someone in the buildings, unless you had any relation to the tragedy other than watching it on TV from the comfort of your home or work place, pandering to this tragedy like you're just as affected by what happened as those who were there is just sick in the head.... especially after this long after it happened.
