and non attachments. : ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxhZQlOO_0
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > While I understand the strong emotions involved in wanting to "replay" > all of the events of 9/11, I think it's important for at least one voice > on this forum to point out that in spiritual terms what we're talking > about is classic attachment to a set of afflictive emotions, and a > conscious attempt to *stay* attached. > > 9/11 inspired for Americans a very real and palpable sense of several > afflictive emotions -- fear, anger, outrage, and the desire for revenge. > ALL of these emotions have basically defined the national character of > the United States Of America in the ten years since the event. Indulging > in these afflictive emotions has cost the country its stature, its > credibility, its civil liberties, trillions of dollars, thousands of > lost lives, the bankruptcy of its economy, and more. > > So what does the country -- aided by the same media that supported its > unconscionable post-9/11 wars and loss of its own liberties -- DO when > confronted by the ten-year anniversary of 9/11? They stage an > over-the-top media frenzy, the very *idea* of which is to get viewers to > wallow in the afflictive emotions of the original event as much as > humanly possible, to bring them to the top of everyone's emotional > processing stack, and activate them again. > > Starting to feel as if there is more to life than fear, anger, outrage, > and the desire for revenge? That's UnAmerican. Watch these videos, and > you'll be politically correct again, wallowing in the same afflictive > emotions you've been wallowing in for the last ten years. GOTTA > perpetuate the fear. GOTTA perpetuate the anger. GOTTA perpetuate the > outrage. GOTTA perpetuate the desire for revenge. Just GOTTA. It's the > American way. > > The Spanish got over having one of their bullet trains bombed by > terrorists in a month, without descending into the maelstrom of hate and > lashing out that America did. The British public did mostly the same > thing w.r.t. the bombings in the London Underground (mostly...its > government went the other direction, and tried to emulate the American > way of indulgence in these afflictive emotions). Americans? They just > seem to want more of the same. > > I would suspect that this media indulgence in the past probably got the > highest ratings of any TV shows in years. And I also suspect that as a > result many in yesterday's audience are as established in wallowing in > the same afflictive emotions today as they were on 9/12/2001. THAT, in > my opinion, was the whole point. >
