Ten years ago yesterday a shit ton of people died over a cultural misunderstanding and a long standing grudge. Unfortunately the body count from that incident is still rising. Humans are so fucked up. I balled my eyes out crying that morning as I watched the towers burn on my television. It made no sense to me at all at the time and still doesn’t. I have a copy of time magazine on the incident a few weeks after that is like 200 pages with all sorts of stories. I get choked up every time I look at it.
I was back east recently and got a glimpse of the slowly rising freedom tower. To me the New York sky line will always be missing something, no matter how glorious the new structure may be. Some blame Osama and Islam, others the US Government. I blame humanity. We have been casualties of each others hatred since the beginning of time. The only difference is we have gotten more efficient at killing.
The more things change the more they stay the same…….
A friend once asked me why I decided to stop participating in society. I simply replied that I created Lisanti Land because I was tired of being fed everyone else’s bull shit. At least in my fantasy land I put on my rose colored glasses and see what I ever I wish. A painted veil after all can do no harm to the wearer. People take a look around you, things are not right with the world around us. Maybe they have never been.
I would like to believe this is the worst catastrophe I will live to see, but I fear that I would be just lying to myself.
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