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in memoriam monstri.
May. 2nd, 2011 04:00 pmSo, it appears that Osama bin Laden is dead.
I won't weep over him.
But I will note that his death will not bring back one single person from 9/11, not one. His death will not noticeably improve the world, as satisfying as it might be. (And when I say that, I mean it both that most of us will not mourn him, and that far, far too many are spontaneously ejaculating at this very moment from pure murderous joy.)
And, you know what? There are those who were at 9/11, who survived that dies horribilis, who are being slowly killed now: by those who are loudest at shouting how patriotic they are, forcing everyone who was there to prove that they aren't Mexicans before they can get health care.
And the death of a man who would steal freedoms from the West rings hollow when questioning the increasing tyranny of the TSA is, in and of itself, cause to be treated like a traitor by it.
And the people who get so righteous about people in brownskinned countries who get excited, nigh hysterical, about horrible events they don't understand happening to people they don't know in places they've never been, maybe you should all look at the gates of the White House right now, and all across the USA, and shut the fuck up.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the drug-dealing kleptocratic “Northern Alliance” are still fighting the misogynistic Taliban, each as hateful as the other. The fourteenth “Second in Command of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan” this month will be declared dead, to be followed swiftly by the fifteenth, to no visible effect.
And more children will find themselves strapped to bombs and persuaded to set them off by men who have a steady supply of orphans with nothing to live for.
And... I won't weep over bin Laden's grave. But I can't feel satisfaction either.
Because he got what he wanted: he won. And all the chest-beating idiots currently firing into the air and waving flags and slapping backs and passing celebratory beers in Washington and Austin and L.A. and Bumfuck WV; they helped him.
I won't weep over him.
But I will note that his death will not bring back one single person from 9/11, not one. His death will not noticeably improve the world, as satisfying as it might be. (And when I say that, I mean it both that most of us will not mourn him, and that far, far too many are spontaneously ejaculating at this very moment from pure murderous joy.)
And, you know what? There are those who were at 9/11, who survived that dies horribilis, who are being slowly killed now: by those who are loudest at shouting how patriotic they are, forcing everyone who was there to prove that they aren't Mexicans before they can get health care.
And the death of a man who would steal freedoms from the West rings hollow when questioning the increasing tyranny of the TSA is, in and of itself, cause to be treated like a traitor by it.
And the people who get so righteous about people in brownskinned countries who get excited, nigh hysterical, about horrible events they don't understand happening to people they don't know in places they've never been, maybe you should all look at the gates of the White House right now, and all across the USA, and shut the fuck up.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the drug-dealing kleptocratic “Northern Alliance” are still fighting the misogynistic Taliban, each as hateful as the other. The fourteenth “Second in Command of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan” this month will be declared dead, to be followed swiftly by the fifteenth, to no visible effect.
And more children will find themselves strapped to bombs and persuaded to set them off by men who have a steady supply of orphans with nothing to live for.
And... I won't weep over bin Laden's grave. But I can't feel satisfaction either.
Because he got what he wanted: he won. And all the chest-beating idiots currently firing into the air and waving flags and slapping backs and passing celebratory beers in Washington and Austin and L.A. and Bumfuck WV; they helped him.