I'm hard on chairs too - at least ones at work. I was never home long enough to hard on those - but alas, now I am.
It wasn't that rough on the hands. The box was luckily easy to rip open. But getting it up there and wrestling it out of the box...ugh.
The problem with post 9/11 and terrorism - was a lot of people reacted exactly the way the terrorists wanted them to - which was with fear and rage, and a desire to live in a fortress. As if that could protect them - the enemy wasn't out there. So as a result, people gave the police and military far too much power, also the executive branch got way too much power. A lot of reprehensible acts were allowed in the name of "fighting terrorists" - and after a while it was difficult to see much difference between those fighting the terrorists and the terrorists themselves. I actually think Whedon addressed that dichotomy really well with Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse, and Firefly post-911. Showing what happens when you fight evil with evil - eventually you become the very monster that you were fighting.
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It wasn't that rough on the hands. The box was luckily easy to rip open. But getting it up there and wrestling it out of the box...ugh.
The problem with post 9/11 and terrorism - was a lot of people reacted exactly the way the terrorists wanted them to - which was with fear and rage, and a desire to live in a fortress. As if that could protect them - the enemy wasn't out there. So as a result, people gave the police and military far too much power, also the executive branch got way too much power. A lot of reprehensible acts were allowed in the name of "fighting terrorists" - and after a while it was difficult to see much difference between those fighting the terrorists and the terrorists themselves. I actually think Whedon addressed that dichotomy really well with Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse, and Firefly post-911. Showing what happens when you fight evil with evil - eventually you become the very monster that you were fighting.