Succumbing
Sep. 12th, 2001 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinue"When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born."
--Tao te Ching
What doesn't surprise me but does, I suppose, unnerve me, is the general consensus that this was an act of war and the overriding astonishment that this sort of thing could happen in America. "We're not safe anymore!" people exclaim.
Of course we're not. We never were. "Find the security holes" is a game I've played ever since childhood. And I've never agreed that most terrorists want to get out alive, which is an assumption upon which most deterrence methods are based.
There will always be a lunatic fringe. You will never be able to predict them. Yes, it's reassuring to believe that everything is planned by large shadow organizations, but that isn't really where the danger lies.
So we're not safe. Nobody is. Life isn't safe.
Live.
--Tao te Ching
What doesn't surprise me but does, I suppose, unnerve me, is the general consensus that this was an act of war and the overriding astonishment that this sort of thing could happen in America. "We're not safe anymore!" people exclaim.
Of course we're not. We never were. "Find the security holes" is a game I've played ever since childhood. And I've never agreed that most terrorists want to get out alive, which is an assumption upon which most deterrence methods are based.
There will always be a lunatic fringe. You will never be able to predict them. Yes, it's reassuring to believe that everything is planned by large shadow organizations, but that isn't really where the danger lies.
So we're not safe. Nobody is. Life isn't safe.
Live.
