{"id":34,"date":"2001-09-13T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2001-09-13T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T23:47:53","slug":"sham-of-sensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/sham-of-sensitivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sham of sensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>More idiotic comments from the media:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pilot to &#8220;24,&#8221; which is produced by 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV, includes the explosion of a jumbo jet, which might be deemed in poor taste considering Tuesday&#8217;s attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is just so typical.  A fantasy tragedy is not in poor taste unless it&#8217;s within 7 days of the last similar event which garnered media attention in real life.  If it&#8217;s slightly longer than that, it&#8217;s considered cutting edge and &#8220;ripped from the headlines&#8221;.  Longer still, and everyone&#8217;s seemingly forgotten about it to the point where the idea may be considered original.  It happened with Columbine.  It happened with other plane crashes and hijackings.  I think it&#8217;s absolutely ridiculous.  Why bother with this sham of sensitivity?  Why indeed.  It all ties back to the American inability to separate fantasy from reality.  In some situations this can be a strength &#8212; if you can&#8217;t imagine yourself out of a situation, you can rarely get yourself out of it in truth.  But in others it just turns into simple idiocy.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was scary, but in a distant sort of way. <i>This<\/i> and other repercussions like it, are <b>much<\/b> more frightening to me.  We may be able to stop one person determined on a kamikaze sort of mission, but never with certainty, and if there are enough, they will always slip through the cracks.  That is the power of such determination that one will absolutely give one&#8217; s life for the mission.  It&#8217;s an incredibly effective method, but it is not efficient, because it uses the most loyal and committed troops up.  Going into a massive reactionary crackdown mode is NOT THE ANSWER.   We may increase our probability of catching said suicide terrorist by 1 or 2 %.  Perhaps.  But in doing so, we increase the false positives, we increase the hassle and the paperwork and the runaround for innocent people, and we decrease the liberties of all of us.   This is not something I&#8217;m willing to put up with in the long run OR the short run.  And the way people have been talking, and the way this administration <i>thinks<\/i>, I am concerned that someone will try to take advantage of this situation to ram something dangerous through.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More idiotic comments from the media: &#8220;The pilot to &#8220;24,&#8221; which is produced by 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV, includes the explosion of a jumbo jet, which might be deemed in poor taste considering Tuesday&#8217;s attack.&#8221; This is just so typical. A fantasy tragedy is not in poor taste unless it&#8217;s within 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}