I was writing a post when my old laptop showed me a blue screen (sic!) and reboot started. After it was finished and I connected to the Internet I found out that a terrorist act happened in Volgograd. It happened again. People are dead. Why am I writing this? First of all, to express condolences to the families of the victims… As if they are interested in my words in a foreign language right now. Empathy is very important for us as human beings but when somebody dies, no one can do anything about it, thus formulaic expressions and social rituals are left for us as markers of our ‘humaneness’. I may sound cynical but this ‘cynicism’ is a defense reaction.
I remember when the August 2004 Moscow metro bombing happened near Rizhskaya metro station which is just two stations away from the station nearest to the house where I live. The aftermath of it and other terrorist acts for me was that sometimes when I’m in the Moscow metro the following thoughts come to my mind. I’m watching people: everybody’s busy reading their newspapers, playing on mobile phones, clicking on their tablets… What if it was to happen here. Now. BOOOOM! Is it very painful?
That’s what the terrorists want. Fear. Paranoia. Panic. But I’m just pondering over it. I’m calm.
When Jean Baudrillard died in 2007, I stumbled on a site where the article on his death was put in a ‘Dolce Vita/Celebrities/Gossip’-type rubric. I thought he would have appreciated the black humour if he had been alive.
Death became the ultimate show. Ultimately, it sells. Don’t you hear? Click, click, ding, ding.
Isn’t it awful?
Update. As we know: the show must go on…
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well terrorizm in every where , all aronun the World, war is a undustry, war is a economy for the dark power ( you know many countries support the terrorizm but they don’t seem to support ) so we dont have any chance to stop disgusting action.. ın our country, we look strong asa iron and we never cry or shout..
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Thanks for stopping by! Yes, terrorism is a global virus that keeps mutating & adopting to changing conditions.
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Sad, tragic, infuriating. I do not understand the mind-set of people destroying other people to make some personal point. And a pointless point when you blow yourself up in the process.
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My feelings exactly. The cycle of violence never ends: wars, terrorist acts, murders. More agression, more hatred, more deaths. The ones who do it are only brainwashed puppets while the ones who stand behind them make money. It’s an industry of death.
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