I’ve been debating whether to post anything even remotely associated with 9/11 today. Seeing the fireworks and hearts swelling and people coming together over something that killed fewer people in the US than COVID did on Thursday alone fills me with… I don’t know what.
It was a terrible day. But we’re having terrible day after terrible day right now and because a human face isn’t attached to it, a great number of people seem to be either shrugging it off or denying it’s even happening. I read Nancy comics from the ’40s and The Plague by Camus and wonder if it’s always been this way.
I don’t want to diminish anyone’s experience from 20 years ago. But I also worry about our ability to band together against something bigger than a cartoon villain that we can simply throw in prison or bomb the hell out of to be done with the problem. Maybe we can all make a better effort?