Good Riddance, 2005
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What a miserable fucking year it's been. I can't wait for it to end. I absolutely cannot.
When the world woke up to the flaming, collapsing terror of September 11th, 4 years ago, we all reacted in horror and fear. But a funny thing happened in the aftermath while the rubble and smoke cleared: the best of humanity came out. It turned out that the worst in humanity, the blind hatred of wanting to kill thousands of innocents, could bring out the best in humanity, thousands more trying to help thousands that they'd never even met. Of course, the ensuing nonsense, illegal wars, and the blind, pointless support of said illegal wars, not to mention another stolen election, all completely negated the good that came from 9/11. But the point is that there was a shining moment post 9/11 where we could look past the horror and see the good.
Four years later we woke up to a large chunk of Louisiana under water, starving, dehydrating, crying for help, and getting none. And while help did eventually arrive, kinda, and fingers were pointed as to who was to blame, answers and silver linings were much harder to find. Where we had seen hope and determination in the eyes of America in the days following 9/11, we saw only despair and desperation in the days following Hurricane Katrina. Realizing that people in foreign countries don't like us is confusing and scary; realizing that the government doesn't care is positively dumbfounding, even though we all really knew it all along. And sadly, so many questions and fears have still gone unanswered. We can't even ask for justice now, as the year ends, because such a huge part of America is still displaced, still desperate. So much of America still wants answers.
This year has gone on long enough. Good riddance, 2005. Can't say I'll miss you.
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with love from CRS @ 9:20 PM
Friday, December 30, 2005
What a miserable fucking year it's been. I can't wait for it to end. I absolutely cannot.
When the world woke up to the flaming, collapsing terror of September 11th, 4 years ago, we all reacted in horror and fear. But a funny thing happened in the aftermath while the rubble and smoke cleared: the best of humanity came out. It turned out that the worst in humanity, the blind hatred of wanting to kill thousands of innocents, could bring out the best in humanity, thousands more trying to help thousands that they'd never even met. Of course, the ensuing nonsense, illegal wars, and the blind, pointless support of said illegal wars, not to mention another stolen election, all completely negated the good that came from 9/11. But the point is that there was a shining moment post 9/11 where we could look past the horror and see the good.
Four years later we woke up to a large chunk of Louisiana under water, starving, dehydrating, crying for help, and getting none. And while help did eventually arrive, kinda, and fingers were pointed as to who was to blame, answers and silver linings were much harder to find. Where we had seen hope and determination in the eyes of America in the days following 9/11, we saw only despair and desperation in the days following Hurricane Katrina. Realizing that people in foreign countries don't like us is confusing and scary; realizing that the government doesn't care is positively dumbfounding, even though we all really knew it all along. And sadly, so many questions and fears have still gone unanswered. We can't even ask for justice now, as the year ends, because such a huge part of America is still displaced, still desperate. So much of America still wants answers.
This year has gone on long enough. Good riddance, 2005. Can't say I'll miss you.
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