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It's been 25 years. Many adults don't have any memory of it and don't care. I think we should stop remembering if we're just gonna keep fucking bombing the middle east until someone attacks it a third time.
Remember what it turned us into, what we became, unabashedly, afterwards.
Remember how it broke our collective minds and caused us to go into a violent frenzy that only made things immeasurably worse.
Remember that.
Remember to never let that happen again.
Remember that we are still in the midst of that collective frenzy, and while you personally may not be able to directly stymie the violence carried out by the powers that be...
Remember that you can hug your neighbor, not hate them, that you can see every other human being as fundamentally another human being, whom should be lent a helping hand, not a closed fist nor veiled threat.
Remember that you can do that right now; promote love, instead of hate, inspire curiosity, instead of fear, foster acceptance and community, instead of isolation and atomization.
That, that is the ultimate antidote, to why what happened that day, and afterward, happened.
Didnae turn us into anything - it just gave the worst parts of what this country already was an excuse to come out into the sun.
I remember thinking we deserved it. I remember being tortured by unnecessary flag propaganda and watching friends dragged away to yet more middle east wars. Suddenly being told thst you're unpatriotic because you disagree. I was terrified to vote at 18 because people who put up non-GOP stickers or signs got vandalized. What if someone finds out I vote wrong? There's a lot of gun toting nuts and klan descendents in my state, and they've been in charge ever since. I have fewer rights because of 9/11.
The problem is most people didn't even notice that, let alone remember it later.
History repeats itself isn’t just a phrase.
It's like poetry.
It rhymes
Don't trust anyone over 25, including me (46).
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t remember it and doesn’t care or who wants to be at war in the Middle East.
There are over 3 Billion people or almost 36% of the worlds population that weren’t even alive when 9/11 happened. Add in maybe about a hundred million more of anyone who is 25-28 and doesn’t remember anything from when they were a toddler.
In addition to that, the US only has 330 million and of those, close to 1/3 are under that mark too. So now you’re talking only about 220 million out of 8.3 billion people even were “directly” affected by it and that’s only 2.5% of the global population.
It may seem significant in your sphere, but globally, it’s fading quicker and quicker.
I was specifically excluding the people I know who were too young to remember it from my statement as they can’t have forgotten something they didn’t experience to remember in the first place.
But even including the group you are talking about I still don’t know anybody who wants to be at war in the Middle East.
I’m not saying they don’t exist, but it does make me feel like we are being ruled by a tiny minority especially when you keep seeing polls that say that 70+% want universal healthcare and we still have representatives on the “left” who won’t support it just as one example.
Your reply was responding to a comment that said many adults have no memory of it because it was 25 years ago, they were referring to those not born yet or too young to remember
The US commits (directly or through Israel) daily 9-11s, and given that 9-11 was motivated by American terrorism in the first place, the whole "never forget" can only work for the one comfortable generation that never experienced any other event like that.
The current generation sees what's happening, they see the US bombing schools and weddings, and they see Americans commit mass shootings at events and at schools. If another 9-11 happened today, you'd have a much harder time getting everyone on board with invading another country for revenge.
They'd still get away with it probably, sadly, because Americans don't seem to ever be ready to revolt. But I can't imagine it would be the same unity.
How about America remember how Canada helped out that day by letting flights be diverted to Newfoundland and taking care of stranded Americans. Now the current administration is going "Canada? What have they ever done for us?"
I just saw a play based on that "come from away" highly recommend
It would be nice, but in a strange sense I appreciate the honesty. The American right has for decades discredited any and all aid from others to protect their myth that America, and Americans, can do anything, and that needing or receiving help is a moral failing. Republicans never forgot Canada gave a shit, they just never even bothered to learn. At least now the world can see this country for what it is, and will hopefully steer clear.
I haven't forgotten that the US allowed citizens to be slaughtered publicly with the intent to gain support for a war that only existed to enrich a select group of people.
Remember the terrorism we created by being a culture of cunts. And then used to rape our citizens privacy and war with the middle east.
But perplexingly "'Never forget' is not a slogan" is a slogan.
GNU's not Unix.
It should be a day to remember that the people who saved many and worked in the ground zero, got fucked and are being fucked by the government.
Interesting use of nested single quotation marks.
This comm is a bunch of self-absorbed miserable sacks, holy shit.
I guess they are white man only events to those against including him