..:Current mood: Disturbed
..:Listening to: Gravedigger .:. matthew Good Band
I just finished watching Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 911. Damn does Michael Moore know how to make a point. It was so disturbing seeing the effect that events like Columbine and 9/11 had had in America, and the conclusions and connections that Michael Moore was showing.
Human nature is a funny thing... one of the things I saw was the interviews that were done in public with the people who had lost loved ones. People who were recounting their stories and would break down and cry, and others would shy away from them, skirt around them as they walked past. As if grief was some catching desiese, and that if they just ignored it, averted their eyes, maybe it wouldn't affect them.
Any time Michael Moore confronted someone with hard facts about what their actions were doing to others, they would just repeat their old mantras, that it was justified, that they had to do it. People would run away from what they didn't want to face.
I look out of my window at all the people below, and I think about a few things. Even though Toronot is just as big as many of the American cities, I'm not afraid to walk the streets at night here. I don't feel that I need a gun to "protect me and my loved ones". I don't feel sick when I watch the news every night like I did when I was in the states. I feel safe here. The door to my apartment is always unlocked, and it's brought us alot of good friends. So what's so different when you cross that invisible border into the States? Why is it that they can never feel safe?
BTW, damn good song:
Gravedigger...
When you dig my grave,
Could you make it shallow.
So that I can feel the rain.
Gravedigger... ..:Gravedigger: Matt Good Band
Meru at 9:43 AM