Saturday Morning 9/11 Anniversay Coming Up.
August 27th, 2011
I am supposed to be working on my book now. I told myself I wouldn't write these blog posts as often and use the energy for rewriting and preparing my manuscript for publication. I certainly can't use the sloppy writing style I use for this blog. It is a good way to let off steam, but as far as pursuing a literary career, blogging is not the way to go, at least not yet. It is becoming a more legitimate literary form and some people have actually marketed themselves into success stories via the internet by blogging. But that involves marketing in a manner that I am simply not prepared for.
I go to school and take a novel writing class and wonder why half the people there seem to be more interested in gossip than working on their books, but then perhaps this is their moment in the sun and need to communicate, I don't know, I am more or less aloof in these situations, I want to get down to work, but then perhaps I am just a party pooper.
Switching to another subject, I read something this morning that makes sense regarding the anniversary of the 9/11 crap. Paul Craig Roberts wrote an article for Global Research "9/11 After A Decade Have We Learned Anything." The link is below.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26174
In it he gives a reasonable credit to the 9/11 Truthers without becoming a believer in the conspiracy theories. Like me he believes the Government did cover up and mislead but it was more for the sake of avoiding embarrassing facts of lapses in security and judgment on the part of leaders, rather than a conspiracy to blow up the buildings and advance a neo-con agenda. That agenda was already in place as part of the Bush administration, they simply took advantage of the opportunity the 9/11 events presented to push for aggressive action in the Middle East to bring about western capitalist oriented leadership in those countries. At least that is my opinion.
What is the government hiding with all this hype about the hurricane on the east coast? Turn on NPR and all they talk about is preparations for a storm that is as far as I can tell, no big deal. It certainly is no worse than hurricanes I remember growing up on the east coast. New York City is evacuating whole neighborhoods? This is unheard of. Either they are beginning to take global warming seriously or they are hyping this as a distraction.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2011/08/26/get-real-hurricane-irene-should-be-renamed-hurricane-hype/
Forbes and Huffington Post both have writers who agree with me on this as far as the hype goes, but cover up? Nothing much I can see checking the Guardian.UK and CNN, just the usual propaganda around Libya, Bernanke not doing anything about the economy, and bombs in Nigeria and Algeria, both of them had some 18 people die. The one in Nigeria was linked to Al Qaeda, even if it is only in the imagination of some CIA analyst and the media flunkey that buys the government line.
See how cynical I have become, or rather, how complacent. There was a time when this would have outraged me. Now it just seems like the status quo. Rebel, hell, if only enough people were mad as hell, and ready to do something positive, besides picking a dictator. I am so alienated from the workings of the public enterprise that other than writing emails to my congresspersons, I have almost no connection to what is going on. I watch them pick apart my country with some mixture of sardonic humor and smug satisfaction, told you so, forty years ago. Did anybody listen? Well now you are listening, but what are you doing about it? I have tried my part, now I am a disabled voice in the wilderness, one of an increasing Greek chorus. Do you know what is blowing in the wind my friend?
Demographics are a ticking time bomb. We are almost at seven billion people and they all want their place in the sun. Do we fight over it or share it. What do we in the affluent world have to do? Well give up some of our affluence, our god given right to bomb the hell out of everyone else for starters. We need to share some of the abundance as well as plan for the future. It's not that the USA and Europe should become one giant international aid agency; it is more that we need to participate in serious planning to deal with the problems of the world. There are agencies in the UN working on this but we need to make serious efforts to make this more than just a facade while the great powers go on with business as usual. Trillions are thrown away on bad business investments, why not take some of that productive capacity and put it to good use, eliminate the food distribution discrepancy for starters. Why is there still starvation in this world? That is a political decision and it is to our discredit that such conditions are allowed to exist.
I could go on. There are dozens of issues, global warming, deforestation, land mines, corrupt governments, all needing the firm hand of an intelligent public body empowered to set matters straight. We all know what needs to be done; we just need to make the politicians do it. My back is bothering me so I have to stop. As the saying goes the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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