It is strange that althought there are cordened off streets very near to me, I dont feel like anything much has happened.
Dunno why but it doesnt seem to have affected me at all despite the best efforts of the media trying to create this sense of foreboding and panic, I think that this kind of sensationalism is just as damaging to a society as any threat of terroism is.
There seems to be this continuing drive to keep people on tenter hooks all the time, this is a very dangerous thing both mentally and physically and I cant for the life of me understand that, as they have some quite serious minds working on studies of this kind of thing, that its still allowed to go on.
This is in no way an attempt to belittle the actual events that happened and the losses suffered by the families envolved, but I do feel that the constant rehashing of events and of the hypothisis which the media have arrived at can only lead to further events and or a backlash by people that feel threatened as we have seen by the attacks on muslim families and even more stupidly, the firebombing of a sikh temple.
Yes I am worried by the loss of community, but no through the acts of foriegn terrists bent on distabalising the UK, I am worried about the loss of comunity brought forth by human nature and the constant egging on by the british media. Just in the way that we were taught that all africans cannot fend for themselves and they need us in a big brother way to come and help them, so we are told to fear the foreigner that lives next door as they want to kill us all because we dont have the same beliefs as them.
I believe in equality, people are people and we all have pretty much the same basic hopes and fears and I really object to the fact that this is being undermined by the need to sell more news papers, or more on a more sinister level to pass policy at a governmental level. It irratates me.
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Date: 2005-07-13 12:34 pm (UTC)Dunno why but it doesnt seem to have affected me at all despite the best efforts of the media trying to create this sense of foreboding and panic, I think that this kind of sensationalism is just as damaging to a society as any threat of terroism is.
There seems to be this continuing drive to keep people on tenter hooks all the time, this is a very dangerous thing both mentally and physically and I cant for the life of me understand that, as they have some quite serious minds working on studies of this kind of thing, that its still allowed to go on.
This is in no way an attempt to belittle the actual events that happened and the losses suffered by the families envolved, but I do feel that the constant rehashing of events and of the hypothisis which the media have arrived at can only lead to further events and or a backlash by people that feel threatened as we have seen by the attacks on muslim families and even more stupidly, the firebombing of a sikh temple.
Yes I am worried by the loss of community, but no through the acts of foriegn terrists bent on distabalising the UK, I am worried about the loss of comunity brought forth by human nature and the constant egging on by the british media. Just in the way that we were taught that all africans cannot fend for themselves and they need us in a big brother way to come and help them, so we are told to fear the foreigner that lives next door as they want to kill us all because we dont have the same beliefs as them.
I believe in equality, people are people and we all have pretty much the same basic hopes and fears and I really object to the fact that this is being undermined by the need to sell more news papers, or more on a more sinister level to pass policy at a governmental level. It irratates me.
Hmmm a bit ranty today, sorry :-/
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Date: 2005-07-13 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 12:51 pm (UTC)