"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"OH JESUS OH WHAT THE FUCK OH WHAT IS THIS H.P. LOVECRAFT SHIT OH THERE IS NO GOD I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS—Popehat
I don’t blame you for the silence. And the many lives lost, including the lives of those seeking to save others, were tragic and genuinely inspiring.
But all this talk about unity and common purpose and how great that was—from 20 years out it just looks to me like a shared determination to revenge those deaths, leading to a National internal security apparatus, the express approval of torture, two fruitless wars, a de facto war on Islam, hundreds of thousands more innocents dying, mostly Middle Easterners, and the virtual wiping out of the ancient Christian communities of Iraq and Syria.
I don’t blame you for the silence. And the many lives lost, including the lives of those seeking to save others, were tragic and genuinely inspiring.
ReplyDeleteBut all this talk about unity and common purpose and how great that was—from 20 years out it just looks to me like a shared determination to revenge those deaths, leading to a National internal security apparatus, the express approval of torture, two fruitless wars, a de facto war on Islam, hundreds of thousands more innocents dying, mostly Middle Easterners, and the virtual wiping out of the ancient Christian communities of Iraq and Syria.
This is a precise statement of why I’m not posting today.
DeleteThanks for that. Or for reading my silence. Which, frankly, makes me realize we’ve known each other a very long time.