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[mrph]

"This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil, but good will prevail" - GWB

Oh, for fuck's sake. This is a tragedy and a godawful act of terrorism, it is not a George Lucas film. Life is not Hollywood. While I'm pretty sure that the President's speechwriters are smart enough to realise this, I wish they'd stop trying to present it to the public in this gift-wrapped complexity-free way.

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[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Fucking hell. And how exactly will good prevail? And how will they know when they have?

But perhaps they think the best way to re-assure people is to tell them they have nothing to worry about.

Evidently that's not true.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Surely if it is so damn certain that good will eventually prevail, then in some deep, indefinable sense, good already has prevailed and they need do nothing.

No? Worth a try though, isn't it?

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

*smile* Yes.

I agree with you about the coverage. I'm now getting tired of seeing yet another person tell of their not-death. Analysis, discussion of what to do now, moving on - these are the things that should be discussed.

In fact I think the lack of this discussion on the TV is part of what's prompting us to do it here.