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Date Posted: 23:32:44 09/12/01 Wed
Author: cherbourg
Subject: Re: The Death of Twin Towers
In reply to: Sirod 's message, "The Death of Twin Towers" on 09:22:42 09/12/01 Wed

It makes me hard to believe that I am not watching a film.

In the past, the scenes are so real and well-presented but I know it is not real.
This time, the "scenes" are not so well-presented...but
I would like to precept that it is just a film...

We are all so familiar how bombing/ disaster/ holocasts are, through the media's different kinds of representation. But we never experience any actual event, and never imagine that such events will come to real life.

And when it really comes to life like this, I feel such an alienation.

How can I believe it's real?

Maybe the shock I experienced does not really come from the bombing and collapse, but from the fact that these film-like images, these images that we are already familiar with, do not convey the same meaning and message as they did in my past perception...

They are real.

This is not merely a tragedy of US or US people
but a tragedy of mankind

>Today, I watched the TV all day long.
>
>I watched the plane crashed on one of the towers and
>the towers collapsed in 27 different TV channel.
>However, the feeling is still the same.
>
>Twin towers were dead.
>
>Everytime I saw the crash from the news, I was
>stunned.
>
>"Oh my god." I said, the broadcast said, the New
>Yorker in Manhattan said.
>
>There will have many different heading in tomorrow
>newspaper, "Apopcalyse", "When war came to US", "Doom
>day in NY","Pearl harbor in 21th century".... I can't
>find a word to describe. What I saw is just like a
>plot of movie, but it's not.
>
>People jump out the towers. People on the street
>watched those people fell on the street. And me, just
>like them, sitting here and watching the plane crash
>and the towers fall in 27 different channels. At the
>end, you can do nothing.
>
>I saw the people in Palestine celebrated for this
>tragedy. Children smile, woman smile, everyone's so
>happy.
>
>Why ? How come people feel so happy when watching
>other people die?
>
>"Fuck" That's the word come in my mind when my friend
>tell me about this through ICQ. I get lost. Where am I
>actually ?
>
>Later on, I knew that US always assault on their
>country, then I can't blame on them. When Twin towers
>were collapsed, everyone was shock. But when those
>country was attacked by US, who's really care ? No one
>would say "Oh, my god."
>
>I am confused. Where am I now ?
>
>I told my brother, "the twin towers were gone, you
>have been there a few months ago. The people you saw
>on that night might be all gone. The boss of that bar
>might be killed. Everything is gone..." My brother can
>say nothing. Maybe he was thinking the scene of that
>night.
>
>Within a minute, the towers became a million of dust.
>Just like our life. I was stunned.
>
>Every channels here are still keep broadcasting the
>situation in Manhattan, and everyone watching.
>
>Twin towers were dead.
>
>9 11 2001
>
>*Sorry for the foul language I used in this message

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