David Emery Online

One Week On

14 July 2005

I don’t really know what to write at the moment; in fact, since last Thursday it’s been a real struggle to be creative at all, although it’s been coming back in the last few days. That is, of course, one of the main problems with working freelance – you can’t just take a day or two off to take stock…

But the world goes on, nothing really changes, only your specific perception of it does. In the grand scheme of things, 53 people dying in London is almost unnoticeable, but it’s on a small scale that these things matter. For the last week, I’ve been on the tube countless times, and I’ve been though Kings Cross almost everyday which is still closed to most tube lines, and it’s chilling stopping at the station but the doors not opening; how are you not supposed to think about what’s been going on, what’s still going on just 50 meters or so away?

Well, that’s the point of all this, isn’t it? To make people think in a different way, to change the way people live their lives.

Funnily enough, I don’t feel any anger or resentment to the people that did it; they are just fighting their side of a war that they think is just and right – the amount of civilians that our government, and the governments of our allies have killed in our name vastly outnumbers any atrocities committed in this country, so who are we to say what’s right and wrong? It would be real nice if we could just get along, but I’m resigned to the fact that humans on-mass – of all race, colour and creed – are a fairly stupid group, so that idea is a bit of a non starter.

Of course, it would probably help if we didn’t try and force our way of life on people…

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