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I intended to post this earlier, but I’ve been working in Kuala Lumpur the past few days, and didn’t really have time to finish this until today.
I wrote this bit on the plane to KL, which was shortly after the bombing took place:
My Facebook page has been proving me right since I wrote that. And frankly it’s depressing.
So instead I’ll just direct you to the only two posts worth reading about the whole thing, both of which give two very sound pieces of advice that I highly recommend following:
Yes, I know, it’s probably too late for that, or at least the first one. Well, no, really, now that I think of it, it’s too late for both, since the first feeds into the other, as this Gawker piece illustrates all too well.
But maybe you can file them away for future reference. Because we go through this fear trip every single time something like this happens. And we’ll probably go through it the next time it happens. Because 9/11 changed everything.
Yr a whole different person when yr scared,
This is dF
I wrote this bit on the plane to KL, which was shortly after the bombing took place:
One good thing about not living in the US is that I get to avoid the inevitable media circus that surrounds events like this. Actually I could avoid it in the US as well. All I have to do is turn off the TV set. And stay away from Facebook, which will be nothing but expressions of shock and sadness and righteous anger, followed by weeks of inane finger-pointing in the name of scoring political points against Whichever Political Party You Hate The Most.
I don’t even have to check to know that somehow this is going to be simultaneously blamed on Obama, Islam or the Tea Party (which in this case will mean The Entire GOP).
That’s what passes for the grieving process in America today, after all. Media circus, emo-porn and political jockeying. Oh, and a whole lot of racial profiling and some dumb new law “fixing” whatever allowed this to happen.
I don’t even have to check to know that somehow this is going to be simultaneously blamed on Obama, Islam or the Tea Party (which in this case will mean The Entire GOP).
That’s what passes for the grieving process in America today, after all. Media circus, emo-porn and political jockeying. Oh, and a whole lot of racial profiling and some dumb new law “fixing” whatever allowed this to happen.
My Facebook page has been proving me right since I wrote that. And frankly it’s depressing.
So instead I’ll just direct you to the only two posts worth reading about the whole thing, both of which give two very sound pieces of advice that I highly recommend following:
Yes, I know, it’s probably too late for that, or at least the first one. Well, no, really, now that I think of it, it’s too late for both, since the first feeds into the other, as this Gawker piece illustrates all too well.
But maybe you can file them away for future reference. Because we go through this fear trip every single time something like this happens. And we’ll probably go through it the next time it happens. Because 9/11 changed everything.
Yr a whole different person when yr scared,
This is dF
