And don't forget the terrorism plot line!
September 30th 2007 10:31
Whatever your opinion of it, there is no denying that terrorism is very much a part of the world we live in. This thing that is terror has become so ingrained into our lives that it can be found featuring in movie and TV show plots, inspiring runway collections, springing up like a daisy in everyday conversations and of course, what is music without reality as inspiration? So with errorism terrorism being so in our face all the time, have we just leant to shrug our shoulders and say 'blah' to it all? Well, no, but we do feel more and more powerless when this subject's brought up.
Let's start at the very beginning- a very good place to start I'm told. Generation Look At Me got smacked in the face with terrorism when 4 planes were hijacked on September 11th 2001. This triggered talks at school, news specials where everything outside of Ground Zero was put on hold and only reported on if it could be somehow linked to that day's occurrences. Where as before 'terrorism' was a word and concept we were only vaguely familiar with, those days events crashed into our naivety with as much force as the planes into their targets.
And then there was war.
First it was let's invade Afghanistan because it's there you'll find the Taliban. A few years later with no great results (Osama Bin Ladin is still in a cave somewhere) George W. Bush Jr. woke up and decided Iraq would look better with US troops in it. We weren’t thrilled by this and we, whose memories did not include going to war, did not want our memories to start containing instances of going to war. Remember the protest marches, the banners, the radio stations taking polls and playing songs to make people feel better? Oh euphoria, there was once a time when we believed in people power! Where are they now? Well, seeing as they failed to stop the war from starting, quite a few of us have tossed them in the trash and resigned ourselves to being quietly disgruntled.
After 6 years, this subject has been truly watered down; it's used for plot lines left right and centre for TV series that like to pretend they're going on in the here and now. Terrorism features on the news almost daily but it’s always ‘no, we will not be pulling the troops out of Iraq’ and ‘there have been X amount of persons wounded and Z amount killed in the latest bout of violence’. It may be a serious issue, but focused on so heavily for so long, it's kind of lost it's oomph. And besides, we're generation Look At Me, so why would we want to look at some random person half way across the world?
And then there was war.
First it was let's invade Afghanistan because it's there you'll find the Taliban. A few years later with no great results (Osama Bin Ladin is still in a cave somewhere) George W. Bush Jr. woke up and decided Iraq would look better with US troops in it. We weren’t thrilled by this and we, whose memories did not include going to war, did not want our memories to start containing instances of going to war. Remember the protest marches, the banners, the radio stations taking polls and playing songs to make people feel better? Oh euphoria, there was once a time when we believed in people power! Where are they now? Well, seeing as they failed to stop the war from starting, quite a few of us have tossed them in the trash and resigned ourselves to being quietly disgruntled.
After 6 years, this subject has been truly watered down; it's used for plot lines left right and centre for TV series that like to pretend they're going on in the here and now. Terrorism features on the news almost daily but it’s always ‘no, we will not be pulling the troops out of Iraq’ and ‘there have been X amount of persons wounded and Z amount killed in the latest bout of violence’. It may be a serious issue, but focused on so heavily for so long, it's kind of lost it's oomph. And besides, we're generation Look At Me, so why would we want to look at some random person half way across the world?
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