by Conscious » Wed Sep 11, 2002 8:25 pm
I am absolutely amazed at how immature and insensitive some people are. No one seems to have a handle on what the issue here is, and how we should be reacting to it. Knock yourselves on the heads real hard until you understand that 9/11 was an attack on humanity and human values. Further, without pointing fingers, each of us should be feeling a sense of guilt for having brought this world to a point where we are actually killing innocent people, no matter what the cause is. I read what people have to say about the event and America, and I truly believe we are getting into this bog of mixed and conflicting thoughts about politics, and human tragedy. I think the least we can do as humans for what happened on 9/11 is to feel the pain of people that have been affected by the tragedy and come out with postive thoughts on how we can avert such catastrophes. I feel most poeple in India and many developing countries have a hard-to-explain socio-economic complex towards developed countries that is constantly quenched by feelings of hatred and condemnation towards the other nation\'s social, political, and economic structure and I am not denying the fact that there aren\'t feelings of belittlement from developed nations towards ones of a lower status. From our perspective, we feel the urge to condescend about foreign internal issues in order to feel good about ourselves. It is all about justification of existence. Anything that is from America, or Europe is bad. They have bad social values, they have vested interests in our country, and they are plain mean towards everyone else just because they have the money and the power. Why is it that no one talks about us, what we as a country stand for and what we should do to avert the political, relegious, and cast based riots and massacres? We Indians are no angels, so let\'s not point fingers before introspecting ourselves. We have no control over how others operate, but us, and us alone. Let\'s give up feelings of hatred and paranoia and look towards social and economic development. Embrace and sympathize a person, a society, or a country in pain with all your heart and see what a difference it can make. Isolate the psycological dilemma playing into your feelings about 9/11. Use core human values to look at the tragedy, and you will see a completely different picture. Please, for heaven\'s sake, do not argue about whose fault it is, and how we did not worry about the other tragedies at this moment of rememberance. Every event such as this, whether in India, the Middle East, the United States, or South America warrants feelings of sadness and humility amongst each and every us.