"dear god, what have I done!?"
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Well, he really knocked 'em down that day
We all process grief in different ways.
I find it very strange seeing people express such somber emotions about 9/11. Admittedly it was before I was born, but it seems so different to my experience. The reverence displayed for human life during 9/11 seems so disjointed from the apathy to the multitudes more who died in gaza. Who died in Ukraine. Who died in hospitals during COVID. I cannot imagine myself being so shaken by death. When I see tragedy it affects me very little. Not to say I think death is okay, I just can't imagine living in a time where I would have grievances to spare on another thousand dead.
What I'm trying to say is that I probably would set a personal best during a modern tragedy and be either oblivious or indifferent. Relatable meme lol
I think part of why it feels so non-impactful to you is because 9/11 truly set off a chain of events that has led to the situation we're in, including the many tragedies you mention in your comment. Of course 9/11 doesn't exist in a vacuum, and it itself is just a one part of a much more complex web of actions and decisions, but the fact remains that for most common people 9/11 was an absolute tipping point after which nothing is the same. The sort of horrors you're talking about in the world in the wake of 9/11 just weren't the same kind of reality in the world before, at least not with the same intents and reactions thereto. You're right to think it's strange the way people react to and hold 9/11 because you're never experienced the world before it. And to be clear, I am not saying the world was perfect before or that there weren't horrors before, because their were, but 9/11 became a catalyst for so much reactionary evil and overreach and horror that it simply is non-comparable to what came before.
important note: this entire comment and perspective implies an enormous Western post-colonial bias. People in different parts of the world had and have an enormously different reality especially in regards to this event and I will not pretend to be able to speak to their experience.
i lived through it and got out of class early in uni because of it and watched tribute.wmv regularly and i turned out ok
if nobody's pointed out it - it's because rich people died in 9/11
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