Yesterday, I got a call from numerous people in other parts of the country to make sure that the building I work in wasn't the one that got hit by a small airplane yesterday here in Manhattan.
The whole debacle yesterday was ridiculous - everyone was pointing to terrorism, when it seemed so obvious to me that it was just an accident (albeit, a sad one, for the Yankee's pitcher, Cory Lidle, whose plane just unfortunately swerved out of his control). Even my co-worker rushed into my cube shouting, "Did you here that a terrorist crashed an airplane into a building just now???!!" without even knowing the facts. This is how it starts people. We've been absolutely brainwashed by fear.
People are so revved up and juiced up with fear, they can't fucking think straight, and the first thing that comes to their mind is that the terrorists are out to get us. How 'bout this—–WHY the fuck would a terrorist fly a plane into a random condo building on the upper east side?? To buy an apartment? To make the real estate prices in the Upper East Side even cheaper than they are now? It's not like planes haven't crashed into buildings in NYC before!! In 1945, an army corps plane accidentally crashed into THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, for chris' sake!
I realized yesterday, after speaking with several people, that this country has really gone to the shitter. Everybody's so charged up, on edge, and ready to fucking burst at any moment. It makes me feel like President Bush, who's into the business of selling fear, has made quite a profit off of injecting people with a paralyzing terror—terror to live, terror to breathe. It's gotten out of hand.
Also, you'd think Manhattan would have regulations about how close airplanes can fly around the island. Guess what? They don't. Wouldn't you say that if the threat of terrorism was actually real, that we would have those regulations put into place?
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