So below I talked about Patriot Day, in a spirit of bitter mockery. Apparently I did not realize that Patriot Day has a True Meaning, much like how there is a True Meaning of Christmas. And what is the True Meaning of Patriot Day? Let's turn to the always sober & rational Right Blogosphere for answers. Patterico explains:
I have read that 9/11 supposedly hasn’t changed our lives. I disagree. Of course, we don’t live our lives as though every day is September 12, 2001.
Why would we want to?
But it has changed the way I look at the world. I understand that there are people out there who want me to die. Who want my family to die. Who want my children to die. Who would dance a little jig if they learned that my son and daughter had been slaughtered.
I have kids too... here, check out my little pirate girl:
Do people want Patterico's children to die? I mean, specifically? Does anyone want my kids to die, specifically?
I beg leave to doubt it. Let's be precise. There exist people in the world who are crazed ideologues, who have no qualms about killing thousands of people, including themselves, in furtherance of their unhinged religious and political beliefs.
Obviously.
But then, I always knew there were crazy murderers in the world. This person, for instance. Or this one.
Seems to me that the insanity of all these killers, including Atta, lies in their utter, sociopathic, malevolent pitilessness, a cruelty inherent and manifest in the act of reducing other human beings to mere abstractions in an imaginary contest between ultimate good and ultimate evil.
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FUCK! Lost the True Meaning of Patriot Day again, and for a minute there, I'd thought I'd had it...