Quite. "Apocalypse is upon us (again)"... "Significant Anniversary"... "Flight companies hard hit"...
Indeed. Whilst not the (blacklisted phrase #045) "TransAtlantic Flight", I flew yesterday - the plane was full. Nothing could've been further from my mind than the date of the flight.
Defiance?, or the knowledge that the extra security and queues that come with it are well worth it (even though the man behind me clearly wasn't of the same mind, and was most vocal in expressing it).
I was making a point somewhere back there... anyone else care to help me out?
― Andrew Munro (andyboyo), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)
The point, put so nicely by Simon Jenkins in yesterday's Guardian blog, is that our media-politico complex uses these anniversaries to amp up the volume of the fear reverberations coming off of Sept 11 - which he calls "10% bang, and 90% echo." Actual, normal people are not afraid of terrorists, who they rightly regard as pissants, not worthy of being urinated upon by the threats posed by such perennial horrors as, I dunno, car crashes, or lightning bolts.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)
Actual, normal people are not afraid of terroriststhere are a hell of a lot of abnormal people out there...
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)
I don't think most people out there do fear terrorism. They state it as a concern or a challenge in survey but I don't see anyone afraid of it in the same way as they fear much more mundane horrors. The infrequent random nature of terrorism (in the west) makes it much harder for it to engender terror.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)
theres a reasonable argument, that purely in domestic terms, the *war on terror*
is successful, with no attacks on US soil since 9/11. in the uk, where we are constantly told there are waves of potential suicide bombers...a total of four actual suicide bombers.
yes, i think people *are* frightened of terrorism, but, when there are so few attacks (either because a) potential attacks are being dealt with succesfully, b) there arent enough people willing to do them), the actual fear and worry dissipates. people forget
its also, potentially a problem of the spectacular, for something to be spectacular, it usually has to be infrequent
its possibly a false sense of security to feel this way, and i'm sure there'll be further attacks, but, i think people aren't so worried anymore (unless they are asked in surveys 'are you scared of being blown up by a terrorist?')
― -- (688), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)