Yglesias HERE points out the obvious about the airport security over-reaction.
(Sexy Side note: is there a link between the over-parenting of our children as discussed earlier and the over-protecting of the country?)
Terrorists don't have anything personal against our airlines, it just seems to be the easiest way to kill a bunch of people and scare the hell out of us. But once that becomes too much of a pain in the ass, they'll simply move on to trains, buses, the Meadowlands (fingers crossed!) or whatever. They're not gonna go "dammit, they got the airports locked up, game over guys. Hail Jesus!" And it doesn't even matter how MANY people are killed - if ONE person is killed today and it's declared to have been done by a terrorist, can you imagine the collective fucking girlie-shriekfest freakout we'll have? We'd draw the Mr. Burns-inspired glass dome over the whole country and shiver ourselves to sleep. Of course, more people will be killed by guns today, but not only do we not give two shits, we have whole organizations that work hard every day demanding we have the right to be shot today.
Also, it's not like terrorism began on the morning of September 11, 2001. We had a pretty nice system of thwarting attempts without shitting our pants. But while we can live with people getting killed by drunk drivers and shooting each other, we can't seem to accept the fact that hey, sometimes one gets through. That's life. I mean, LITERALLY, that's life - out of the billions of sperms I'll blast into some young lady tonight, MAYBE one breaks through and hits her in the whatever the hell it is down there and creates a life.
There's a certain parallell there, no?
Oh, I'M sorry...did I just blow your mind?
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