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I don't get angry at those that dismiss this time in our country's history. I have to accept that for some reason or another some people are unable to comprehend the full impact that this has had on our country and our people.
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o i think there's a pretty accurate understanding abroad here of which aspect of this history is being dismissed and which is not.
what's being dismissed is not the events 7 years ago themselves, but the ways in which they came to function as the origin myth for a shabby, racist narrative that was in turn an origin story for the imposition of a kind of neo-fascist period in american public life that i suspect will be a source of bewilderment for those who come to write the history of it later---except perhaps for conservative americanists who seem to be able to rationalize anything.
i don't see *anyone* dismissing the event itself--but i see *alot* of folk across the age range whose ability to make these basic distinctions between what happened and what was manufactured about what happened. that this substitution of reactionary mythology for the events was already happening on the afternoon of 11 september 2001--right before your eyes--is a part of what people remember. i don't forget.
you seem to want to tell folk what they should remember.
but i don't get angry at those who seem unable to make basic separations, who imagine History is a single process, everywhere the same. i have to accept that such mythological understandings of history lead perfectly reasonable folk to make arbitrary assessments of events and of people---hell, we have a 7 year demonstration of the Problems this can generate--or we do if you choose to look. but i understand that's no fun, and so the preference for mythology, which is possible at any age.