Emotional diarrhea of Sept.11

They say people with a tin ear have no gift for melody.

     And it seems that most Americans - made vapid by too much TV - have

    no gift for melancholy. Knowing what was coming, yesterday Sept.11,

    I avoided radio and TV as much as it is possible to avoid the ubiquitous

    media. Only the emotionally illiterate can invent the " grief counselor ".

                 Only a few minutes of radio and TV alerted me to the

    emotional diarrhea that will characterize  every Sept. 11 for many

    years to come.  How many of us have the emotional intelligence to

    smell unctuous words ?   I am so turned off by this army of professional

    preachy manipulators of public emotion !

              One does get sick of sobbing on cue. REAL grief is personal

    and avoids the public circus. The lugubrious sight of people who

    regret every penny claimed by Uncle Sam - who will not stop their

    cars at crosswalks for cripples ! - languishing with a longing for

    dead compatriots, heroes all !

                 There is something  admirable about the British way, the

    stiff upper lip. Or is that just emotional constipation ?

             And the more anybody - even a President - babbles about God,

    the less we should trust him. Osama also has daily meetings with

    the Almighty.

                 George W. Bush is a one act president. He is frozen

    in   caricature on Sept .11. And he is no Abe Lincoln - who had wit,

    wisdom, and a great sense of humor.