[Vision2020] [Bulk] Important Bill Maher Message

[joekc at roadrunner.com]

This is a great post. It is a difficult subject to talk about but I think you hit the nail on the head.
--
Joe Campbell

---- Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> I meant to reply to this earlier.  This is a very important point.  For 
> those that haven't watched it or can't watch it, Bill Maher shows some 
> of the devastation from the train wreck at Chatsworth and of Hurricane 
> Ike.  He then makes the point that if this was the result of a terrorist 
> attack, we would have freaked as a country (my words).
> 
> This is very true, and the point has been made here before.  This caused 
> me to think about something I've wanted to mention here before, but 
> couldn't get the words together for it.  Our reaction to 9/11 as a 
> country was in a way schizophrenic.  We reacted with extreme fear, and 
> we reacted with extreme "macho"-ness.  Those two reactions seem 
> contradictory to me, but I think the one comes from the other.  Being 
> "macho" is often done because of fear, or as a reaction to a fearful 
> situation.
> 
> I would have liked us to have been truly macho in our response to 9/11.  
> We could have taken the attitude of "You want a piece of me?  Come and 
> get it!"  Instead of taking away liquids, lighters and nail clippers, we 
> could have given every person that boards a plane a big Rambo knife.  
> Just try to hijack a plane after 9/11 when everyone on board has a big 
> knife - even if you happen to have one yourself.
> 
> I'm kidding about giving knives out on planes, but you get the idea.
> 
> So, instead of being the person that gets shoved by someone who shoves 
> back and stands their ground, we were the bully that gets hit, runs off 
> crying, and then pounds on some little kid we don't happen to like when 
> the opportunity presents itself.  We justify it to ourselves because he 
> resembled the guy that shoved us, and we got to steal his lunch money.
> 
> Thinking that the name Barack Hussein Obama is an insulting name is a 
> symptom of that fearful pretend macho-ness that has swept us down the 
> path of shamefulness on the world stage.  It's time to put our foot back 
> on the path we were originally on, don't you think?
> 
> Paul
> 
> Chasuk wrote:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmCC_jasq0E
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