A. says things go on as usual in London, specially for people who can’t
afford to use the underground. Accidents do happen, and you can be
knocked down by any car in the traffic.
But my worries didn’t go in that direction at all. From the distance, I
don’t know what kind of London I’m going to find when I get back there.
I have a couple of friends who used to live in Florida, USA, and had to
come back to London because they couldn’t find any job after S11. And on
the freelance list, there are already comments about people looking at
you from ‘top to toe’ (I bet I’ve got the expression wrong) when you get
on the bus. These are the most bleeding changes that terror brings into
society. Sudden and violent death is always tearing, always hurts. That
is the personal drama, present in all forms of death, as part of life as
new births. In my opinion, it is the social, the collective trauma that
is different in all terrorisms and wars.
… At the end of the day, car accidents and domestic/gender violence
are still bigger killers than terrorisms, in the ‘developed’ world.
Maybe not in poor countries. But then, in some of them, what happened in
London last week is their daily bread, isn’t it.
As for pictures, another day I will write what I think about the
pictures that we are being allowed to see… from the freelance
journalists list, we’ve been pointed to the picture that seems to be
everywhere, http://moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=77571. And people have come
together to write the news for themselves – indymedia is not the only
outlet it seems… wikinews
