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terrible vision

we're a week past halfway done with the year, and already things are shaky.

there was the announcement in london yesterday about their garnering the bid for the olympics in 2012, but this morning, less than twenty-four hours from that announcement, there was the terrorist attack that killed and injured innocent people while they were on the undergound and on a bus.


you'd think that these scenes you see on the news were only real in movies and books, but since then, we've had new york in smoke, madrid on her knees, india, indonesia, and thailand ransacked, iraq bombed, and now, london, very shaken. buildings have fallen down, cars have exploded, people have been mangled, and it's all been one giant chaotic mess.

what happened? when did we all lose sight of the fact that we're all still human fucking beings? when did basic human decency become obsolete? and furthermore, why?

when did we all begin to hate each other? it's crazy to think about that, you know, despite my idealism, there's actually people out there who coexist and make peace with their differences, and then there are those people who can't let it go. it's been a week of stark, sharp contrasts; there was live 8 to help alleviate world poverty (which was being held by some of the richest people in the world), there was pageantry in singapore for the olympic bid cities, and then now there's a bombing to coincide with the g8 summit in scotland.


what really freaks me out is that the spring of my sophomore year, i was there. i can't believe this is happening, to see it all blow up from a tv screen here in berkeley, waiting on news reports from cnn and reuters while looking at pictures i had of us having fun at king's cross - st. pancras, the spot where there were most people injured and dead.

i'm deathly afraid of being in that situation. even this morning, there were police officers all over campus, scouring garbage cans, looking at backpacks in the layaway station in the tower. even a canine unit came up to the observatory deck. i'd never been asked if anyone looked suspicious on campus, and now, i was asked how busy it was and how many people and all that important antiterrorist stuff.

it's sobering, to say the least. to see it happen is even worse.

to those of you in london right now, i hope you're safe.

posted by Open Source Food @ 1:42 PM