Officer, all set, the panel in front of me says that we are just 2 minutes away
Ok, finally, is there a backup plan called as project runaway?
Yeah, even I was wondering, can’t we lure someone and tell him to play a game on the panel?
Fucktard! Get on it, activate
Sir!
But be careful you can easily spook, just remember the prayer…
Have you started the procedures?
By “us”, I mean you
Damn officer, what did you eat? This is how you want to spend the last minute of your life?
Sorry, I couldn’t find anything so I had to kill one of the afghani hostages for lunch
Ok, 5 4 3 …
Wait!! It’s been bothering me since morning, who was the actor in that star spangled Russian movie?
I have seen myself substituting muscle hijackers who took control of few lives and crashed into the twin towers. If FBI is tracking everything on the Internet that seems suspicious, I bet I will try to get into their records with this post. Coming right back, I often simulate holding the airplane transmission, watching the south tower from 100m distance and just pausing there, for lot of time sometimes, having a cup of coffee to savor the moment, “were you having coffee there Khalid?” I surely will ask him that question when I meet the turn– What does he must be thinking, just moments before he realized the Osama bin laden joke on 20th December 1994, when they were planning for a trip to the sexiest islands near Israel.
Time stands still—nobody can even listen to the sound of air, it is only the eyes that can see, and feel what they can feel from the little that they have got left to feel. If I was there, I am not sure if I would have closed my eyes inside the plane or I would have watched the statue of liberty waving the torch flame, the flame, which always seems to say something light, but that day, it would have felt as if the statue knew what was happening and was just signaling to the entire world to stay away from the shores of New York.
I have rewound the scenes too many times, what if I was just a pedestrian walking past the buildings? Would I have just crashed on the road owing to my asthma, or would have I thought that Cannabis is legalized and America is finally breathing freely? May be I would have just felt ecstatic because I survived a near death scare, and would have felt god-like thinking if this cannot kill me, nothing can.
What would the people inside the plane who fought with the terrorists be thinking? Are those people altruistic (now what does that mean)? Were they patriotic? I’ll try not to sound surprised, but my cat isn’t drinking packaged refined milk since 7 days.
It is really difficult to make people believe about something. Best critical reasoning, plain simple facts, anything couldn’t have convinced them that killing should not be business. “Hey brother, I think I can reason you out of what you are about to do, would you care for a round of drinks?” Since I think that the fact those guys being more intelligent than me has more chances, they would know it is difficult to assume others non-intelligence, so I would have rather got my head pie barged out of the plane window falling directly into the human eating sheep fold.
September 11, before that, I did not know that such a thing called WTC exists, “sorry, What The Center?” Was it a shopping mall? Another memorial has been raised, but I would still take a shopping mall there, they would probably have been less motivated to crash into a shopping malls bathroom.
If the hijackers really are believed to be absolute “normals”, are they (in general) accepted well by the people around them? “Hey darling, I am really having sleepless nights because the date for my new project is approaching, I don’t know if I will succeed or not, anyways, looking at the plus side, I am going to get rid of you” and then an emotional response: “I am sorry honey, but I know you will succeed, it is completely normal to feel what you are feeling before such a huge project.” And then they make love over the fictitious world trade center built for a test crash/project.
I know normal rhetoric cannot (who knows!) provide with a knife to kill, but what did, then? Could we have made them believe what we want them to believe? We all know mind doesn’t lose the power to reason, it is latent, that’s all, nobody has ever asked for doing away with air, water and food. If only, given a chance, could we have? Is problem with people not having it or having it, or is it intrinsic? It is tough question to ask, like asking “chance or freewill?” We know from science that it works in both ways, so chance and some will gave direction to something that happened. We cannot control chance, but we can control the will, so could we have, can we? Numerous sensible things do not happen because there is no party with the incentives to do it, in spite of being exposed to the world (not being trained only in jihad camps) and its numerous possibilities, this world couldn’t offer the guys a single thing against their reason for doing something? Way back in the year when it happened, I still remember having a discussion with a friend; I can never forget that. I was cursing the mastermind behind the attacks and my friend was saying it is very difficult for us to understand the mind-state of the guy(s) who did it. I was hell bent on the fact that it didn’t really matter and that the act simply was atrocious beyond reason and explanation. 8 years hence, I certainly cannot say, “How could they have…?” As it is—We cannot reason someone out of something into which someone has not been reasoned into.
Saying that, there have been moments in my life, when being convinced to be an accomplice on “What? The Call…I‘ll take that” was as easy as it is for a Brazilian woman to become braless and order a man to become a monkey in the bed. Some psychological shit—Fear drags humans similar to the way hope pushes us. If you are given an incentive that life after death is going to be free from all the miseries, if you are convinced, then there is no fear, the fear, which is required in right quantities for survival, doesn’t let us know that we need it, we fear the fear, so much, that may be these guys decided to abandon it.
It doesn’t require one to be a staunch rebel to blame these things on society, trouble being, these societies operate disconnectedly, so it is very different to find unison unless we have the whole world listening to a speech by me. I have categorically stated this so many times, but nothing is going to change until I am allowed to co-ordinate the world single handedly. I am not against people floating over the shores of major cities awaiting another 9-11 and musing about how they could get lucky if people inside that plane decide to throw away all their possessions(cash) and… I am pretty sure that there was a person inside the plane that crashed into [WTF?], who was writing a book describing the exact events that took place that morning, I feel really sorry for him that his bestseller could not see the daylight.
“The deer, horse and the cow all eat grass, yet a deer passes small pellets, and cow excretes flat pancakes and horse passes globs of shit containing dry grass”
“Well, I don’t know why”
“Then why are you acting like you know about 9-11, when you don’t even know about shit?”
So where the hell is Mr. Osama anyways? Listening to led zeppelin? Learning salsa? Is he shooting for a private film which will reveal the truth behind the 9 11 attacks as well as his future plans for making world a better place to live? With the kind of money these people have, may be entire Al Qaeda group is transforming itself by plastic surgeries and few of them may already be operating inside institutions like CIA and KGB, ISI etc, and this time, no wonder Michael Jackson is believed to be Al Qaeda’s favorite, and they all sing “Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and this entire human race”, every night after a gruesome who’s-who drill which aims at debunking each others impersonations.
In a letter written to his wife Osama begged his wife and children to not feel responsible for anything that is happening in this world—an excerpt: “Yes, I am terrorist, so what? I still have a heart that beats, and I love you, although I would have loved you more had you helped me in the Mumbai blasts, you know what a cruel time that was and our relationship was on the edge of an AK-56. Children, sorry for the slack in supply of grenades, I just read somewhere in the Quran that grenades are not meant for age groups below 12, but you can look forward to a blast after that. Love and terror…Osama”
Although I am amused by the efforts of these terrorist groups, I have one thing to say to them “it’s already fucked up out there, why are you hell bent on making it even worse? Please don’t fuck with us”
So entrenched are we in our ways that we really have difficulty in drawing another circle, first one is always easy. The burden of proof lies on whom? On me, you, Bible, Quran? Just like the alleged perpetrators labored under the delusion of a higher law, we all seem to be acting in our own ways, only that we can’t see a building crashing down, so we don’t mind. It is easy for us to comment and write about few things when they are distant in lot of sense, but I always feel if you want to hold someone responsible, then you got to accept responsibility. Each and every floor of the building doesn’t have to be melted in order for the building to crash; a missing link might achieve that.
Haven’t we all at some point of time or another felt the need to set the world on fire? Say if you are provided with all the resources to do so, would you have done it?
