twc °1: Illusion fades
There was a time, when I was younger and dumber - much more than I am today. Back in those days, I admired all the peole that had the opportunity to live in the United States. The big cities, the famous people living almost next door, the freedom: That's what America was all about. And when we talked about America, we meant nothing else but the United States. Nobody cared about the bunch of states on the continent's north and south.
However, some years have passed since little me thought like that. Read something about the US today on the internet or in the newspaper and your reaction will most likely be: What the fuck?
Collapsing cities, moron rappers that sell-out white T-Shirts for 120 bucks, blockheads and spies, spies everywhere. Where's the sense of a black president when he's acting even worse than the white Texan cowboy before him?
Last week, so called "Boston bomber" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was on the cover of the Rolling Stone. If you didn't just look apathetically at his picture, you could have read why he actually was on the cover. The magazine tried to explain in the article how a promising young man became a fundamentalist. No glorification, no mocking the victims. Anyway, nine out of ten on people on twitter didn't care about that and released a shitstorm upon the magazine. The same day, browsing the Internet, I landed on the site of a Boston newspaper, where I saw a picture of young college girls and boys that could have been taken one day or so after the killing of Tsarnaevs older brother. These guys that looked like a bunch of actors from High school musical were waving american flags, hugging each other and having a party. I was suddenly reminded of the footages that were shown after the death of Osama Bin Laden. It's a very special "american thing" to launch big parties when somebody dies, I can't remember never ever having seen this kind of behaviour in Europe when somebody got killed. To call things by their right name: I was disgusted, and I surely was not the only one. Not just because it's unhuman to act like a group of drunk apes when somebody, even if it's a terrorist, loses his life, but because you show how stupid you are by putting yourself on the same level as those so called enemies of the civilisation and terrorists.
The second point that I can't get into this head of mine is: Why the fuck is almost everyone in the US sure that Tsarnaev was actually the man behind the bombs? Because the government says it? Well, if you believe your governemnt, you believe a system that is spying your mails, listening to your phone calls, slandering you in general and above all, obviously has lied and hidden facts to justify the last war. Where's the foundation to build your trust on?
Freedom, responsabilty, self determination: These are the qualities the US have lost. Or maybe they even never had them and stupid, young me just had that illusion. Almost the only good thing we receive from the magic country on the other side of the great sea nowadays are the Hollywood products, which is funny, because that's a whole industry based on illusion and making up stories.
But fuck it, illusion fades. Better too soon than too late.
However, some years have passed since little me thought like that. Read something about the US today on the internet or in the newspaper and your reaction will most likely be: What the fuck?
Collapsing cities, moron rappers that sell-out white T-Shirts for 120 bucks, blockheads and spies, spies everywhere. Where's the sense of a black president when he's acting even worse than the white Texan cowboy before him?
Last week, so called "Boston bomber" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was on the cover of the Rolling Stone. If you didn't just look apathetically at his picture, you could have read why he actually was on the cover. The magazine tried to explain in the article how a promising young man became a fundamentalist. No glorification, no mocking the victims. Anyway, nine out of ten on people on twitter didn't care about that and released a shitstorm upon the magazine. The same day, browsing the Internet, I landed on the site of a Boston newspaper, where I saw a picture of young college girls and boys that could have been taken one day or so after the killing of Tsarnaevs older brother. These guys that looked like a bunch of actors from High school musical were waving american flags, hugging each other and having a party. I was suddenly reminded of the footages that were shown after the death of Osama Bin Laden. It's a very special "american thing" to launch big parties when somebody dies, I can't remember never ever having seen this kind of behaviour in Europe when somebody got killed. To call things by their right name: I was disgusted, and I surely was not the only one. Not just because it's unhuman to act like a group of drunk apes when somebody, even if it's a terrorist, loses his life, but because you show how stupid you are by putting yourself on the same level as those so called enemies of the civilisation and terrorists.
The second point that I can't get into this head of mine is: Why the fuck is almost everyone in the US sure that Tsarnaev was actually the man behind the bombs? Because the government says it? Well, if you believe your governemnt, you believe a system that is spying your mails, listening to your phone calls, slandering you in general and above all, obviously has lied and hidden facts to justify the last war. Where's the foundation to build your trust on?
Freedom, responsabilty, self determination: These are the qualities the US have lost. Or maybe they even never had them and stupid, young me just had that illusion. Almost the only good thing we receive from the magic country on the other side of the great sea nowadays are the Hollywood products, which is funny, because that's a whole industry based on illusion and making up stories.
But fuck it, illusion fades. Better too soon than too late.
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