Remember 9/11

Flint · 09-11-2008, 10:21 AM

I remember when I was in elementary school and the space shuttle blew up. The teachers were absolutely beside themselves...but I guess it's harder for the full gravity of an event like this to pop the bubble of a child's blissful innocence.

When you're a kid, things blowing up is something that happens in movies, so it's usually pretty cool. The reality that things blowing up can be a bad thing...that's a hard lesson.

Plus, we're conditioned as Americans to expect that we will be the ones doing the blowing up of stuff, not the other way around. Our default reaction to something blowing up is to cheer. It's especially confusing to a child--to not cheer when something blows up.

09-11-2008, 10:21 AM	#13
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I remember when I was in elementary school and the space shuttle blew up. The teachers were absolutely beside themselves...but I guess it's harder for the full gravity of an event like this to pop the bubble of a child's blissful innocence. When you're a kid, things blowing up is something that happens in movies, so it's usually pretty cool. The reality that things blowing up can be a bad thing...that's a hard lesson. Plus, we're conditioned as Americans to expect that we will be the ones doing the blowing up of stuff, not the other way around. Our default reaction to something blowing up is to cheer. It's especially confusing to a child--to not cheer when something blows up. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio** Last edited by Flint; 09-11-2008 at 10:29 AM.

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