morality kyla I was so sure our generation would pass without claim to any real horrifying "events" whatsoever -- and not, as one might suppose, because I am an optimist or a romantic, assuming that nothing like that could happen, but, honestly, because I am a pessimist and a skeptic. I thought, skeptics are they who realize that our horror is the LACK of events, the lack of change, the normalcy, the day-to-dayness of it all. Prophets of Doom, I thought, are the real romantics. And now...I don't think that I was wrong, not in the least. I think that many, MANY people are secretly (they would think) glad that they now have an event to call their own. They're just not willing or able to admit that it's what they've been hoping for all along. 010922 ... birdmad very astute observation although owing to the somewhat cyclical nature of history (and the invariably troubling thing it says about human nature) it was my own sick fear that whether we secretly, in our collective subconscious, wanted a great tragedy to call our own or not, we were going to get one anyway i think even more troubling is the strange anticipatory salivating of our own religious fringes who i almost suspect would go out of their way to fuel the fire if it would expedite their desired end (ie: the end of the world) there are some days when i wonder if we shouldn't all just sit back with a cup of reverend jim's old fashioned kool-aid surprise and let the roaches have their turn...god knows they've been waiting long enough and they likely couldn't do any worse than we have 010922 what's it to you? who go blather from