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[bubosquared]

(I'm not angry, I'm not judging, I'm not generalising, I'm just scared. I feel like that's the only negative emotion I'm capable of anymore, and it'll be a long time before I can feel anything else again. And I'm not going to apologise for that, or for wanting to hide from the people who are enforcing that feeling. That doesn't make them bad. It just makes me frightened.)

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[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen anything about your reactions that warrants your feeling apologetic.

I honestly would like to feel that we are all in this together, and that if my nation gets *anything* positive out of this it would be a renewed, long-overdue and *lasting* understanding of the fact that we need our allies, we need cooperation, this lone-superpower-Bigfoot bullshit is not going to cut it anymore. Not that it ever did. We'll see. Right now, admittedly, the prognosis is not entirely favorable.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

See, that's the thing. Because this isn't some grief-induced irrationality, this is an attitude I've experienced from a lot of Americans, but I thought my friends were not like that, and now some of them turn out to be. And that's frightening.

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

This happened on American soil, in an attack against an American landmark, but it is a universal problem. If we don't move forward with that *global perspective* firmly in mind, we will have learned absolutely nothing. That may sound preachy, but it's my honest opinion.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Well, I agree. but maybe I'm preachy, too. :)

[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

But see, that's just the thing-- that attitude is a grief-induced irrationality for a lot of us.