timeware wrote:9/11 wasn't just a thing. People lived it, and still suffer the loss of loved ones from it. I remember there was a day when no planes flew, when the country was actually united for a change. People seem to forget that 3000 lives were lost that day. This isn't shit you forget, and some people aren't going to let it go for comedic reasoning. No matter how much time passes by.
I'm not trying to paint you as being insensitive there's a reason why 9/11 is a sensitive topic for people.
Oh hey, I don't know if I replied to you about that, but uhm ... again, time passes, people pass. To be even more honest, I was 6 and only remembered coming home early and watching Cartoons. To a degree, I am insensitive to 9/11 and again, unashamedly/ashamedly laughed at 9/11 jokes. It's like because it doesn't IMPACT me like older kids/teens/adults/seniors who were witnesses to it whether on television or home. Like I said, people should NEVER forget. Forgetting allows for repeated history and mostly bad ones, sadly. So you weren't trying to paint me insensitive, as much as I already was, BUT not to the point that I can't take it seriously anymore. I can, I cry, and I hear that number (2,000 actually) and I am on my knees hearing those screams and seeing those images, praying to God for the future to never see this level of terror which is on par to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the holocaust and other dark points in mankind's history. What my point was iterating is that in a post 9/11 world and its similar to a post-WW2 era, people have become desensitized and its difficult to make people laugh, but to a degree, some of us can't handle extreme fast paced and over the top humor that is improvised and goes on and on because no matter how desensitized and morally confused society gets, we have limitations. The comedies of the past reflect the times, but the best ones that last forever tell us about who we are and that in the face of darkness, monsters, and in some cases a Sumerian god of destruction ... we can have a laugh and get through it. 9/11 isn't a joke, but darkness can be if you are in a light that it cannot touch. Just don't be an asshole and not forget the weight of the matter.