I vascillated last night, watching the news footage of the celebrations, between annoyed and understanding some of it. Those college kids - they've spent half their lives living and hearing about this, and two wars, one of which was ostensibly predicated on bin Laden (I think we've all given up the pretense Iraq ever was in the first place). You and I are probably too old to appreciate that, but I imagine it had a similar impact that seeing Challenger explode had on me back in grade school, with respect to the space program and space, period. Plus, there are people in NYC who were truly traumatized by this, being so close to what happened. I can understand their point in being at Ground Zero last night.
Still, yeah - I don't quite get it myself. I'll go so far as to say I'm glad he's gone, but "jubilance" isn't quite it.
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Date: 2011-05-02 06:08 pm (UTC)Still, yeah - I don't quite get it myself. I'll go so far as to say I'm glad he's gone, but "jubilance" isn't quite it.