> to all the conspiracy-fueled madness that led to 1/6/21, which is the only other day that began to feel like 9/11.
THAT is an interesting, and wildly speculative, take.
THAT is an interesting, and wildly speculative, take.
It's speculative, yea. But without 9/11 I don't think we'd have a culture of giant military style pickup trucks rolling coal and waving flags (American or Confederate). I think the militia movement of the 90s would have stayed much more contained and minor without something to justify their claims of conspiracy and NWO takeover. And I think we wouldn't have developed the sense that we were all living in a disaster movie, and become so callous and inured to what we see on the news. I don't think I can or should summarize all this in a post, but maybe the best way to put it would be that it ended the American Century, and bent the arc of our civilization towards decay and self destruction. It exposed a crack in the foundation of the country that has grown, and keeps growing. I suppose that could have happened any number of ways.
So not totally far fetched I'd say.
[1] https://pca.st/episode/6deccd04-ca45-404b-8537-c4bbe73fedb9