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Random Late Night Thoughts before/after The movie, 'Independence Day' has to be the one of the most manipulative, jingoistic, schmaltzy pieces of crap ever written. In regards to the Jordanian assassin al-Zaqarwi, he was a mutant, obsessed with death and murder, deserving nothing but death himself, twisted in every way. The sadness lays not in the victims he left in his wake. The sadness lays in the fact that any of this had to happen at all. I wish I lived in a society that would be stoic about his death, not celebratory. I wish to be a part of a society that abhors all murder, and a society that thinks the fact that a freak like that existed and had to be taken down is something that diminishes us all, not just the dead. A society where violence, pollution and murder were relics of history. The violence is our strongest link to the primordial past, the peace is our future which we deny with every breath. We strive to murder and betray each other because we believe there is not enough for everyone, and so fight for the crumbs from the master's plate. There is enough for everyone, and the ruling elite's greatest trick is
convincing everyone that there never has been enough for everyone and
there never will be.
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