I was 9yo during 9/11. I remember being confused why everyone was so upset about it, cause my parents had told me before that ~150k people globally died every day, and that was *way* more upsetting to me. I didn't understand why a miniscule, 1-day bump in death count mattered.
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yeah, it mattered cause most of the freakout wasn't about the deaths, it was about the *visibility* of the deaths and the narratives around it
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I think a big part of the difference is our sense of blame. Most of those 150k deaths don't have a villain you can blame. Something primal gets activated when there is a villain we can blame
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I was like "okay, the buildings fell.. It's bad, but bad things happen all the time on the news"
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a limerick on 2nd order effects and politicians' desire to be seen to *do something*!
it's tough for a person to measure
how leaders will spend blood treasure!
while death might exist
not all makes folks pissed
(and saying this gives me no pleasure!)
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When 9/11 happened, morning time Australia I cannot sleep that night. Tsunami 2004 was also a nightmare.
Pandemic also has been troublesome to my brain with fears my parents, relatives and friends might be in danger everyday.
In the end, life moves on, we are 8 billions people.
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In retrospect... It was never about the death count, but the symbolism of the act. Can't deny it changed the world.
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