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Re: Monday, October 8, 2001
Sigh... It doesn't matter what WE do. We're not the people who did this. The people who did this didn't watch Saturday morning cartoons. Wile E. Coyote and Ultraman didn't color their perception of the world. At least, I think that's where you're going with this. My tastes haven't changed, as far as I can tell. But, I take a larger view of all of this, anyway. My wife recently told me that she thought the events of 9/11 were the defining moments of our life - that nothing else would be 'bigger' than this. I had to disagree. I think the fall of Communism in the USSR was bigger. Perhaps the fall of the Berlin Wall. Or landing on the moon. The Bhopal disaster killed 3 times as many as died on 9/11. There are natural disasters that kill as many people as died that day. I haven't changed anything I'm doing. I have a 3-year old, though. As a consequence, my family's lives are fairly violence free for the most part. We still watch things like ER and The Practice after he goes to sleep. We try to avoid violent commercials while he's awake. He's really into Scooby-Doo. I don't worry about whether that will affect him negatively. Maybe others will shift to less violent entertainment. Why would they, though? Islamic Fundamentalists are the ones we should be worried about. I don't believe they're big consumers of our popular entertainment.
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