September 11

September 11 (The 10th Anniversary of September 11 (Jurassic Park 3, for a joke at the start of the video)) is the 57th episode of A Dose of Buckley
== Transcript ==
Has it been ten years already? Yup, that's right, if you can believe it, it's the tenth anniversary of the release of Jurassic Park III. What an awful and senseless tragedy. Oh, alright, it's the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and like Kennedy's assassination for the baby boomers and the earlier generations, everyone can tell you exactly where they were when flight whatever 0 something out of somewhere slammed into the Twin Towers and forever changed our lives. I guess. So here's my story, in case you give a shit, and if you don't, feel free to skip a head to a minute when I'm berating you. I was twenty years old, unemployed, fresh out of college with a computer programming degree that was worth less than the paper it was printed on, and still living at home. I woke up some time after both planes hit. My mom said to me, "Hey, check out CNN, two jets were flown into the World Trade Center! They thought it was an accident when the first one hit, but now they're saying it's terrorists!" And I said to her -- dazed, as I had just awakened -- "Weird. Do we have any Froot Loops left?" Luckily there was, so I went into my TV room, ate breakfast, and watched multiple angle footage of planes flying into two towers that, up until that point, I hadn't even thought of, seen, or cared about. And then at 1 PM, the new TNN, now known as Spike, started its afternoon eighties and early nineties reruns of Miami Vice, The A Team, and American Gladiators, so I watched that. Later, I turned on CNN, and when they were still talking about the Trade Center, I said, "Still?" Later still that night, I went to my boxing club, worked out, and life went on. Not a single exaggeration there folks, now, I need to put things into perspective for everyone. Obviously anyone living in New York at the time -- or maybe even Virginia even though no one talks about the plane that hit the Pentagon, at least not with the same frequency of the towers -- anyway, anyone there, they were affected. Anyone who lost family or really close friends in the attacks? Also affected. But I don't wanna hear a goddamn fucking thing from anyone else because it's just gonna be bullshit coming out of your faces. Yes, it was a major tragedy, one that maybe even could've prevented, but here's where that perspective putting happens. It wasn't even the biggest tragedy of the year! I'll bet you didn't know this -- I know I didn't until I started looking up shit that happened in 2001 to make that Jurassic Park joke at the start -- on January 26, 2001, an earthquake hit India and killed 12000 people. That's more than four times the amount dead during the September 11 attacks. So in January of this year, did you light a candle for it? No? Huh! Well then, you probably remembered to commemorate the lives lost in El Salvador, when two earthquakes hit within a month of each other in that year, killing 1200 people. What, you didn't, you say? Well, did you miss the Fox News, and CNN, and network specials about those tragic events? Well, you see you didn't see them -- oh that's right, because they didn't fucking happen. In ten years, will we here in North America discuss the tenth anniversary of the Japanese earthquakes that killed 16000 people? Will we air countless, several-long hour reports and dedicate newspapers to it? No. We won't. And for Americans that are gonna be pissed at me for this? Let me ask you something. When was the last time you thought about 7/7/2005? If you had to look that up, you just proved my point. When was the last time you thought about the shootings in Norway that just happened? When was the last time you gave a shit about Japan, or India, or the suffering workers in China, or countries where the term "honor rape" exists? Was it when you were throwing your remote at an empty seat on your couch and swearing because the cable was out? Was it when you were pissed because someone had ten items in the eight items or less checkout at the grocery store, and you delayed in getting your Doritos home by fifteen to twenty seconds? Oh, I know! It was when you got pissed off at the McDonald's drive thru attendant because you said no tomato on your burger, and oh -- there's a fucking tomato. If you're mad at me for saying that I don't care about 9/11, you're a hypocrite, because a) you didn't care about 9/11 until it was convenient for you to, and b) you don't care about the rest of the world. And guess what? You shouldn't. If we dedicate half a second a day per every life that's been tragically cut short ever, we'd have no time to do anything else with our own lives. And that's the point I'm trying to make. We all have to live our own lives. Let those affected by 9/11 mourn, as they should be expected to. But if 99.999% of people on this planet were asked how 9/11 affected them personally? I guarantee you the best answer that they could come up with is, "Well it takes longer to go through the airport now." That's right. The best answer that you could come up with is that you are inconvenienced as a result of 3000 people dying. You don't care! You're just saying you do because society says you have to. Shut the fuck up.