9/11 at 21
I will confess that in a week where the news has become a thick pasty blob, it can be hard to remember 9/11 but impossible to forget it. We are still stinging from it, not just because of the dead, but because that set in motion many things that will continue to do damage. This is when the Media really came into it's power, realizing that it was not only possible, but profitable , to drive stampedes over the cliff. It was when America lost it's prime position in the world, for both bad and good. I say this because we had not appreciated at the time that we were being led along a path that would destroy us as much as others, be it with high debt to China, or the effects of Climate change. We did not realize that common sense was not very common, and that yes, the right wing really would love it fascism to the point where they would they would make killing other Americans an accepted part of practice.
As much as I think getting older makes you wiser, it does not. It can, but there must be a lot of vanity left behind, to exchange fort hat wisdom, and time will tell if we can make that change, as a nation, and as people.