Invitation for comment

[pseydtonne]

I was watching a special about the Twin Towers -- how they were built, how a Frenchman walked across the gap on a tightrope and how another scaled the taller one with climbing gear he designed himself, how they were home to their own zip code (10048) and one of the largest transit concourses in the nation.

The documentary interviewed the director of the World Trade Center. He hired the architect, he ran day-to-day operations from an office on the 63rd floor of one tower, he savored each opportunity to give new facets to the career of his buildings. He was all smiles, but some part of him seemed very sad to see his life's duty destroyed within his lifetime.

chaggalagirl noticed how into this program I was. "Of all the people I've talked to, you're the most into what happened." I hadn't thought of it that way.

I don't think the nation has really discussed what happened. We went into shock, formed a phrase for the event, got angry and killed others. We've lost civil rights, got angrier, built elaborate conspiracy theories, waffled about how to straighten everything out. We've just never said what really requires retribution.

It's amazing how people from America's heartland got pissed about a financial office being destroyed in New York, a city loathed above all for being full of panty-waists and lefties. There is a lot of forward movement away from the event, but very little investigation in how it all happened. How did people get through security? Was there an inside job? Were any traffic controllers involved?

"Oh, shut the flying fuck up!" That's what you're saying, right?

Why do we all still feel like there's a hole in the nation that started around November 2000 that got a lot worse in September of 2001? Why doesn't anything seem to be solved? Why does the economy keep getting worse?

Because we haven't confronted our ghosts. Until we do, we'll only maintain delusions and not heal.

Am I full of shit? Prove me wrong. Yell at me.

Comments

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with this about security, and not just at Logan. You have no idea how much illegal not-supposed-to-be-on-planes crap I've gotten through airport security with. I'd gone through many, many times with handcuffs ON MY JACKET, just for starters, which even before 9/11 was a big no-no. Only one place ever stopped me: Pittsburgh. Everyone else let me through - and it's not like I was hiding them.

Remember, their "weapons" were entirely legitimate to take on a plane before 9/11, unlike my handcuffs.