These past couple of days, I've had time to think about how I've spent half my life in a post-9/11 world,
I've spent roughly a quarter of my life post-9/11, and...
which means I came of age in a world of constant paranoia, violence, ignorance, manipulation, and greed.
...so was born into and came of age during the long years of the Cold War (if we actually believe it ended in 1991, and I'd argue it didn't). That means I endured paranoia, violence, ignorance, manipulation, and greed...along with stark terror (which is still there, actually). Nothing has really changed. Muslims are the new Communists, and the US has become more blatantly a police state – has taken more steps towards become a true police state. But, the more things change.
And time will only tell if my generation will use that newfound outrage to do something productive, or will simply retreat into that numbness we learned at the next sign of real peril.
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Date: 2011-12-19 08:38 pm (UTC)These past couple of days, I've had time to think about how I've spent half my life in a post-9/11 world,
I've spent roughly a quarter of my life post-9/11, and...
which means I came of age in a world of constant paranoia, violence, ignorance, manipulation, and greed.
...so was born into and came of age during the long years of the Cold War (if we actually believe it ended in 1991, and I'd argue it didn't). That means I endured paranoia, violence, ignorance, manipulation, and greed...along with stark terror (which is still there, actually). Nothing has really changed. Muslims are the new Communists, and the US has become more blatantly a police state – has taken more steps towards become a true police state. But, the more things change.
And time will only tell if my generation will use that newfound outrage to do something productive, or will simply retreat into that numbness we learned at the next sign of real peril.
Indeed.