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two days to first quarter
september 11, 2002 ~ 9:10 p.m.

Well, it's September 11th again, finally. I'm hoping that reaching the one year anniversary will get us to stop being so fucking obsessed with this. I mean, it was a horrible thing and all, obviously -- but people die all the time, people are murdered all the time, what's the big deal? The right wing is using this to push their conservative legislation, our freedoms are being taken away (like with the "Patriot Act", what blatant fascism!), and corporations are slapping flags on everything to sell more products. And all this damn blind patriotism is really obnoxious; it bothers me almost as much as blind religious faith. Newsflash people: our country is not perfect! It is not a model of democracy! Our "democracy" is controlled by corporate interests, as is our foreign policy, which is what caused this in the first place. And no, the terrorists did not do this because they "hate our freedoms" as Bush so stupidly put it. Nobody hates freedom.

You know what I find really, really disturbing? I think that if the towers hadn't collapsed, but the same number of people had died, we wouldn't care nearly as much about this. Everyone's ignoring the Pentagon, after all, and the only reason I can think of is that it wasn't destroyed. So what people really care about is the destruction of the towers -- not the people who died. And I think the converse is true: if the towers had collapsed but no people had died, or few people, we'd be just as upset as we are now.

Anyway, enough ranting, on to lighter topics.

Movie review: The Importance of Being Earnest. I just rented Wilde a few weeks ago so I am all interested in Oscar Wilde right now, and I went to see this movie based on his play. It was hysterical. And Rupert Everett and Reese Witherspoon and the others were all very good. Another movie review: The Fast Runner. This is a fantastic movie based on an Inuit legend, which follows the story of a group of Inuits some time before European contact (the exact period is unclear as far as I can tell) and centers around a love triangle that escalates to murder.

Oh, and I'm back at school, and going crazy because I'm taking Chemistry (it's a requirement for my major) and I have NO CLUE what's going on. Practically everyone else in the class took it in high school, which I didn't (and I'm glad I didn't because otherwise I would have missed out on Humanities Through the Arts). So I'm freaking out because I don't understand a single word the professor is saying, and we have a test next Thursday. But, I'm going to talk to the professor and go to the tutoring sessions, which hopefully will help.

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