i just read that CNN.com will be streaming the 9/11/2001 footage on 9/11 in real time...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/07/911.pipeline/
"As part of its coverage of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, CNN Pipeline will stream CNN's television coverage of September 11, 2001, in real time, as the events of the day unfolded.
The free replay on Monday will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, minutes before the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York."
i don't know about anyone else, but this is disturbing to me. it just seems so insensitive and cold to stream video on their web site of all thos people dying, all that horror, all that anger, all that destruction. it's actually making me sick to my stomach to think about it.
current mood: disgusted by the mainstream media once again
current song: "umi says" by mos def (from the dave chappelle's block party soundtrack)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/07/911.pipeline/
"As part of its coverage of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, CNN Pipeline will stream CNN's television coverage of September 11, 2001, in real time, as the events of the day unfolded.
The free replay on Monday will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, minutes before the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York."
i don't know about anyone else, but this is disturbing to me. it just seems so insensitive and cold to stream video on their web site of all thos people dying, all that horror, all that anger, all that destruction. it's actually making me sick to my stomach to think about it.
current mood: disgusted by the mainstream media once again
current song: "umi says" by mos def (from the dave chappelle's block party soundtrack)
glYou know something. i didn't know about this until i read sbout it here, and all weekend i felt pretty much as you did. But i started watching some of the myriad of 9/11 programming over the weekend and as someone who knew DOZENS of people who died that day i slowly changed my mind about it and watched quite a bit of it today.
i think while maybe over the top, the spirit of why it was done was right on target in that, i think we are as a nation, starting to forget, and get desensitized to what happened that day. i think most people in this nation don't believe things until they see it on tv, and if showing it all over again reminds people of what exactly happened to us ALL...not just the 343 firemen, or the pa cops or nypd, or any of the civilians who were murdered that day....then i guess i can stomach it more than i thought
i do agree with you that we are desensitized to what happened on this day five years ago...but maybe it's a collective forgetting or repression of the hideous mess of emotions everyone felt that day. it seems like everyone is desensitized and isolated from everything happening around them. because we don't want to feel bad. we're conditioned to feel good - whether it's from hedonism or pills prescribed from a doctor - and we, as a whole people in a chaotic society, don't know how to deal with the messy emotions, the emotions that make us feel hurt, angry, betrayed, profound sadness. so we sedate ourselves with pills and tv and celebrity lives (who most people forget are real people too) turned into entertainment and buying the latest "thing"
i know i'm tired of feeling sedated, without enough energy to take my beliefs and turn them into action, but i still don't need the pain and heartache of that day replayed to snap me out of it. if it helps others to wake up from this extended emotional sleep, then i'm glad. but i'm tired of all of us acting from a place of fear (fear of unknown, fear of other). it's time to act from a place of genuine love and respect for everyone else on this planet, and this poor pitiful planet we've almost ruined.
and that's my hippie soapbox rant for the day