Well, yanno, to a certain extent, I'm not saying it -isn't- okay to make light of it. We have a casual interest in psychology, after all, and humor is how people cope with tragedy a lot of the time. Hell, I even remember Challenger jokes after the space shuttle accident in the mid-80s (have I just dated myself?). It's like how the guy who went on eBay the day afterwards offering to sell the WTC, "some assembly required," may not have been funny immediately afterwards, but was something we laughed about when we found out about it some months down the road. It's how people get a handle on the incomprehensible, bring it down to their level.
All the same, even though I'm not terribly patriotic myself-- I don't even feel too strongly about being American most of the time, and sometimes am downright ashamed of it-- there's something for me that I can't quite explain in words about seeing people find comfort in such silly, almost childlike expressions as pasting flags all over. If it makes them happy, it makes me happy, even if it looks a little bit goofy. Somehow, that's the kind of thing I find my mind coming back to and seeking refuge in when I find myself thinking that humanity on the whole ought to be destroyed for its own good. c_c
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Date: 2002-09-09 12:27 am (UTC)All the same, even though I'm not terribly patriotic myself-- I don't even feel too strongly about being American most of the time, and sometimes am downright ashamed of it-- there's something for me that I can't quite explain in words about seeing people find comfort in such silly, almost childlike expressions as pasting flags all over. If it makes them happy, it makes me happy, even if it looks a little bit goofy. Somehow, that's the kind of thing I find my mind coming back to and seeking refuge in when I find myself thinking that humanity on the whole ought to be destroyed for its own good. c_c