two nights ago i was listening to a radio documentary on 88.5. the narrator had traveled the country and was interviewing people, american people, about their views on the war. the views were as diparate as a mississippi man who was quoted as saying "of course we should just blow 'em off the face of the earth. i don't know what all this talk about racial profiling is, we should just line up all those A-rabs and send em out of here cause you don't see no white people making bombs" to a brooklyn woman who was against the war becasue she was afraid of that it would only bring on more reason for other nations to hate us and attack us. this brooklyn woman lived in an area that caught most of the smoke and soot from the twin towers up through december and every time she cleaned her windows and wiped up the dust, she felt guilt because she knew that some of that ash carried human flesh. the documentary ended with the narrator's following commentary, which i wrote down nearly word-for-word:
"the basic notion known by the founding fathers of this nation was that no one truly knew what was going on. That was why they let the people speak because they believed that if no one knows what is going on, than at least the people can talk about what they think is going. Maybe if they all shared their different ideas then they could come to a common understanding towards what is the Truth about what is going on.
One must ask, however, if we are coming to a consesus at all, or are we merely just yacking and yacking and not understanding what anyone is saying."
the danger we, as a nation, as a people face is that we are so absorbed in what we CAN do with our freedoms that we do not do what we SHOULD do.
the most touching american voice was a shepard woman from wyoming. this woman was autistic and lived a simple life. not only did she not know about the impending iraq conflict, she never heard about september 11th because she "doesn't waste her time reading the paper or watching tv." she spent most of her time outdoors and had better things to do, like living her life, for instance.
my final words: it isn't really funny to joke about carrying bodies, human bodies, in the same dialogue about garbage and signs left in the street. life is life. garbage is garbage. life becomes garbage only to you when you do not respect it.
peace to all who will receive,
anthony
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