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Originally Posted by willravel
The only way something can have meaning is if it's assigned meaning by the person or entity that's examining it.
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There are many entities who have "examined" or are "examining" 9/11 and its consequences.
Only a postmodernist could argue that it was meaningless--that since it was observed through a proxy of the media, 9/11 is merely yet another tidbit of simulacra.
Baudrillard is dead too. Literally.
The question of this thread, "What is philosophy?" is an important one today. Our mode of thinking coming out of the 20th century is necessarily going through a shift. As an atheist, you likely know that the one aspect of this shift includes a rise of a global secular society (while simultaneously maintaining spiritual counterparts). But this shift as a whole is far more complex than any one of us can imagine. With the advent of communication technology (and virtually every other form of new technology today), the degrees of abstraction that surround us simply boggle our minds.
Philosophy is just as important today as it ever was.