Selfish Crab

There’s so much to say, I’m speechless. Maybe I’ll just start from the beginning.

One year ago, a friend called me and woke me up with “Dude, some plane just hit the World Trade Center”. Thinking (incorrectly) that some stupid prop plane had smacked itself into a tower, I then proceeded to watch nearly three thousand New Yorkers die on national television. Suffice it to say, it was a weird day. Much of everyday life suddenly became silly and completely inconsequential.

I also became fairly ashamed of what an un-informed citizen I was. For all my vast knowledge, I haven’t even got the past two hundred years of world history pinned down, nor a basic foundation of economics and political science. That is, not enough knowledge to sort out this whole mess or to even have a strong informed opinion about it. I made a small promise to remedy this situation, and I’m still working on it to this day. One day, I’ll be an active, knowledgable citizen that proudly participates in the nonsense of modern American democracy.

To be honest, it’s been a long, long year. We’ve all been through so much and September 11, 2001 just seems light years away. A lotta stuff has happened since then. A lotta major changes have taken place; some well-executed, some just downright scary.

To reiterate my first thought, there’s just so much data to process right now. Everyone’s chiming in with their two cents… there’s just too much right now. I’m going to post a part two. Stay tuned…. also, I realize that I hate writing on these major occasions. I always feel overwhelmed and pressured to deliver amazing eloquence in the face of occasion. I’m just a kid. I’ll postulate on booze, girls, and homework, but I draw the line at international relations and foreign policy. Thanks for staying with me this far.