Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Misdirected Relief

What kind of a world do we live in now where a plane crashes into a high rise in NYC, and after a few moments of shock, we feel relief that reports say it was just an accident? It is not surprising that our first thoughts are of terrorism when we hear of a crash like this. It is not unreasonable for us to think that. What is weird though is to hear television reports talk about relief that it was not a terrorist attack. Pre 9/11, we would be talking right away about what a tragedy this was. In the world we live in today, somehow, some people have something positive to take from this - at least it wasn't a terrorist attack. It's really weird to think like that.

Now we hear that it was a Yankee player who crashed his plane into the building. Just weird...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are right. It is terrible to feel relief that it was "just and accident". Sad and weird. I've said it before. It is a different world we live in and things will never be the same.

MrManuel said...

Nani - Yes, different world indeed.

POM - Nope, I am sure his family has taken this news slightly different.

Anonymous said...

It's like saying "at least it was only a regular bomb, not a nuclear one..."