Since no one's celebrating in my neighborhood I assumed we didn't really care about him anymore after all of these years. Oh well.
Well I've seen both sides of the argument and it seems that, while I understand why people would celebrate his death, it's kinda messed-up. When people concentrate so much energy on the act of hating--waving flags in exultation of a man, who they've resented, die--no matter what the dead man's done, it's a gross violation of humanity. Yes, you may call me a "hippie," but that's true; there's a difference between what these people are currently doing in comparison to what people would do at a concert, and it's in what they stand for when they cheer. Unless you can make the argument that Bin Laden was not human and in fact an alien serpent from Neptune you're still, no matter how you look at it, insulting a human being who similarly felt and lived, though he led a life no person should aspire to. So...I don't know. Maybe I'm slightly sickened that this also polarizes Al Qaeda and America: that we're the good guys and they're the bad guys, when no one, except God, knows who's in the right. A little holier-than-thou, I guess.
We've come to a time when we are all a little more sure, a little more poised, and a little more celebratory for all of the wrong reasons.