One of the postings on We're Not Afraid, a Web site set up on July 7, the day of the bombings in London.
Posted on 07/12/2005 3:21:19 AM PDT by Pharmboy
One of the postings on We're Not Afraid, a Web site set up on July 7, the day of the bombings in London.
Every momentous occasion seems to have a moblog (read: mob log). But not every moblog is created equal. In 2004, there was Sorry Everybody (sorryeverybody.com), a Web site where hundreds of people posted pictures of themselves apologizing for the re-election of George W. Bush. Now there's We're Not Afraid (werenotafraid.com), a mass pictorial response to the terrorist bombings in London.
We're Not Afraid has exactly the same form as Sorry Everybody, but a wholly different tone and effect.
The site was created on July 7, the day of the bombings, when Alfie Dennen, who works at Stream UK in Chalk Farm, England, posted a picture of the London skyline with this caption: "Show the world that we're not afraid of what happened to London today, and that the world is a better place without fear." Since then, the sentiment has shifted somewhat.
Today, if you manage to get on the site at all (it's so popular that the server can't quite keep up), you may see among the thousand or so postings a picture of Yoda from "Star Wars" with the words, "Not afraid I am." Or you may see Eric from the animated series "South Park" saying: "I'm not afraid - I'm big boned!!!!!!!" Or you may find a picture of a pink handbag with the words, "Hey, terrorists, have a bag of bothered." Yes, frivolity has arrived.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But they had to bash it.
They are a dour bunch of public scolds.
Humor in the face of fear is more armor to the brave.
Laughing at the enemy is the most humiliating to them.
Thanks for your clarifying comment.
They are a bucnh of scolds only if they think that people might be energized to believe in their own strength and the strength and rightness of their country[gay-asp!you...you..mean PATRIOTISM??[spit]].
The Times and others take great delight in belittling, cutting and denigrating anything which might bind people in a way contrary to their idea of bondage.
Sarah Boxer was born in Denver, Colorado, and earned her B.A. in philosophy at Harvard. She is a critic and reporter at The New York Times where she writes about photography, psychoanalysis, philosophy, art, animals and sex. She also writes for Artforum. Her graphic novel, In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary, published last year by Pantheon, is a series of cartoon case histories—an animal tour of all things Freudian. At the age of eleven she published her first cartoon and at fifteen she began reading Freud. She lives with her husband in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Somebody tell this woman that Freud is so over.
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