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Date Posted: 02:19:50 11/07/01 Wed
Author: spoot
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Rant

Okay Gummy pricked my conscience, I know I've been neglecting this here rant board but I just seem to spend all my writing energy just doing emails lately. Oh what a poor excuse eh?

But come to think of it, I do have a bit of a rant to get out, it's been bothering me for a few days so here goes -

Since the attack of Sept 11, I dunno, it seems we Merkans have been retreating into a shell, not quietly, of course, nothing yanks do is quiet, but with lots of bluster and flag waving and analysis up the kazoo, we are slowly retreating nonetheless.

I mean restaurants seem to be empty, hotels are dead, air travel is dying, companies are putting off plans, Hollywood has cancelled half it's movies, everybody is afraid of mail, of malls, geez.

Okay I have to admit the Anthrax thing is pretty scary but it isn't an epidemic ya know. You can count the cases on your hands, er and feet (?)

It's been almost two months since the WTC imploded and there haven't really been any new attempts foiled, just a bunch of scares and hoaxes. So it's not as if we are on the front lines of this new thing, in reality we are living in the same world as before it happened.

I know, living here in Hollywood, it is really weird. All these slick trendy movie people who act so cool and worldly, and suddenly movies to be shot overseas are cancelled, movie stars won't travel to film festivals or award shows, the whole town has come to a stand still. Like it's too risky to make movies anymore? Geez get over it! Meanwhile people who work in and around the industry are really hurting now, but there's no work.

So we stopped doing things coz we are scared. Scared of what? How can we give up our plans, our vacations, our pleasures, our business deals, why, because something bad might happen? yeah, you could fall down in the shower, that's more likely than being blown up in a plane!

I just see this economy going into the toilet, people losing jobs, money getting scarce, things getting shakier, and it pisses me off. It's like we don't think we have a future anymore?

There's such a thing as a self fulfilling prophecy.

Osama doesn't have to do another fucking thing. We're doing all his work for him.

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