Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003 - 6:25 p.m.
I haven't felt like writing lately. Sometimes it's hard to write when you're not in a great mood and you're introspective. Sometimes, knowing that people are reading my thoughts makes it hard to write about my emotions, which is weird because for the most part, most of the people that I know of that would be reading this, I dont' mind knowing how I feel.
I think in this case it was one of thoes times where sitting down and writing would force me to think but I didn't feel like it.
I'm not really a huge Alex Ross fan, but I read the article because of the cover and agree with the sentiment.
He said, "Uncle Sam represents the government and our current government is giving us the finger. but you can turn that around and see the true spirit of the nation giving it back to a government that is telling its citizens 'We know what's best-don't question us.' That finger is definately a fuck-you back at this government."
"Everyone's asking why are we in Iraq? We were sold a bill of goods. This is a show of strength to scare the rest of the world--go after the obvious bad guy. "
And now ladies and gentlemen, Alex Ross shows his comic geekiness (and I mine for totally getting this analogy).
He continues, "It's like Batman going after the Penguin because he can't find the real villain, the Joker. Batman would never do that just for show -- that kind of thing only works for lone justice anyway, not with countries. [The administration] is feeding its ego by trying to send that kind of cowboy justice out into the world. You can't take vigilante philosophy onto that kind of scale."
In other random thoughts, I'd forgotten how great libraries were until I went to one the other day. They're so fantastic. You can get books, movies, magazines, newspapers, CDs, internet access, and help finding it all. Yay.
