re: #64 Charles Johnson

9/11 has become the basis of a new American religion.

Which is really on old American religion.

American exceptionalism is the collective superpositioning of fear of not-being-enough.

What a major, successful, terrorist attack undermined is this idea that America is the apple of God’s eye.

Hawking 9/11 really bugs me. As terrible as murdering a couple of thousand people was, we’ve had wars that killed many, many times that. And nothing comes close to the Civil War in traumatizing the US (which is why 150 years later it is still a hot button.)