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pingbear · 3876 days ago · link · · parent · post: Commemorating September 11 through crass commercialism
i'm playing devil's advocate here but for how long is America going to commemorate 9/11? Other countries have been victim to terrorism in the past too but there is no big date made out of it and there is no systematic regurgitatution of phone messages and victims' photos like with 9/11. Why does America feel the need to do that to itself?
It'll be commemorated for a long time, I'm sure. "America" is not of one mind, of course and I think that may be a part of the lasting power of 9/11: it feels like something that happened to everybody in America. In a country as varied and piecemeal as America, experiences like that-- genuinely unifying experiences, experiences that were not constructed to promote unity-- are rare.