Another September 11th Anniversary
Aug. 19th, 2006 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephoneEvery year for the past 5 years, my inbox has been literally bombarded by people sending me 9/11 trivia. Friends, coworkers, people I have nominal e-mail penpal relationships with, people who have seen me on other people's e-mail lists, people I don't even know or people who have changed their e-mail addresses to names I don't recognize... basically, 10 years worth of e-mail correspondents all send me the same collection of 9/11 anecdotes and blurbs.
I don't forward a single piece of it, mainly because it's all numerology and weird coincidents and synchronicities and patriotic flag-waving propaganda.
Anyway, here's the gist of what I have to say. I just learned this. It's proven, historical fact. A hundred years ago, on September 11th, 1906, Mahatma Gandhi began his nonviolent resistance to British Imperialism.
One man can make a difference.
How do we want to spend the next century?
What will our world look like in a hundred years?
I don't forward a single piece of it, mainly because it's all numerology and weird coincidents and synchronicities and patriotic flag-waving propaganda.
Anyway, here's the gist of what I have to say. I just learned this. It's proven, historical fact. A hundred years ago, on September 11th, 1906, Mahatma Gandhi began his nonviolent resistance to British Imperialism.
One man can make a difference.
How do we want to spend the next century?
What will our world look like in a hundred years?
