From what I hear about these two bomber suspects, they were hanging
around, blending in at MIT.
They got dropped off the moon and were sent here to kill. The fact that they had little cash and had to
rob a 7/11 says a lot about their handlers.
America has been lucky so far in terms of the imported traveling in
kind of terrorists. It is hard to get hold of explosives here. Not like you can transport that stuff over
the mountains on the backs of mules or camels.
But there is another thing too. People from afar only see the
surface of America and do not truly feel what we natives see and feel.
Matter of perception.
So simple and yet so
very complex in reality.
Whose reality is the problem I think.
It is what I always saw looking around the icons of New York and
realizing that foreigners don’t know how to pick the right targets to hurt us
symbolically.
They do not understand us.
Thank God for that.
They could only take aim at the bigger things around in
terms of icons but not truly mainstream America as far as I am concerned – the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 as an example. (nothing close to our
hearts)
That aside. The emerging
global culture is going both ways and right now that two way thing seems very
violent.
The suspects had a shootout at the 7/11 killing a cop and then
carjacked a SUV. So much like an American TV show. The chase. The shootout in
Watertown. The door or door manhunt.
Life imitates art. American art – TV?
Oh well. It is a start of
sorts. They want to destroy us. They want to understand us. They want to
imitate us. They want to be us. But yet they don’t want Mickey D’s on Main
Street, Dirt Street, wherever, their-ever.
Our sense of Local, like our God, not their sense of Local or like
their God. How strange.
Strange dance of mutual attractions. Whatever.
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards
Bethlehem to be born?”
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