Wolseley said:
Ah, the idealism of youth.
I remember back when I had all the answers, too---and knew more about international relations than anyone else in the world.
*sigh* Those were halcyon days.......
Then a crummy thing called "reality" hit me when I reached 21, and it just got worse from there forward.
I kept remembering all those indulgent smiles my father used to give me when I would harangue him with my ideas about
geopolitik.
I just hated it when I found out that he'd been right the whole time.
Bob forbid we have a few ideals in our world today. Oddly enough, the post I had was "reality" that "hits" many people. What exactly was even what you felt was incorrect?
You bring up your youth as a recurser of some sort of supposed arrogance you once had about knowledge of the world. Then being flashbacked to remembering how your dad was "right" about the world or something to that effect. My parents have never cared much about the news, nor have they ever been at a high enough tax bracket to be affected by anything in the news.
Call me idealistic, but I felt my post was a reality that 9/11 is just another day, but some buidlings fell down too. People die
every day yet it means something more to remember one day in particular? I find that too hypocritical and wrong seeing as many other massive deaths deserve to be remembered in better spirits. I suppose one could blame the media, but then again, most Americans get their news from the media, so that'd be the expected effect nowadays.
I've never gotten any political thought outside of books and my teachers. My world history teacher knew little of his own subject he taught and I aced it figuring out more than he did, by his incompetence. US History, I learned a lot. So much that it helped me realize many of my political affiliations, ideals, and ideas and where they fit in the concepts of history today. Still, 9/11 remained just another day, when some people died.
I remember being in Art class when I got to watch the replays of the event. I just looked for a second, thought "Hey, this happens around the world all the time, about time we felt some of it." and later on "more people die every other day, no big deal about this one, outside of mild property damage".
Tangent or not, you appear to have merely just made quarky jokes around your own post, and ignored even addressing much of what I posted. So, longer post came from me here. Suppose a point might arise after you reply, eh?
