[lbo-talk] 9/11 Tenth Anniversary

[Mark Bennett]

Well, yeah, I suppose that's what they would talk about.  Just because it
would be bullshit doesn't preclude it being slung.
I'm not advocating more coverage or commemoration; I just expected more.
Parades and memorial services across the country,
benefit concerts, television specials featuring weeping widows and orphans,
the usual stuff.   Iraq and Afghanistan may be
disasters, but we haven't withdrawn and acknowledged defeat yet.  Perhaps
because 9/11 falls on an NFL Sunday
the consensus is that most "patriots" will be absorbed with fantasy football
to pay any attention.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:54 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Bennett" <bennett.mab at gmail.com>
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> Oh, I don't care.  I just assumed that the 10th anniversary would be the
> subject of all kinds jingoistic propaganda, along with a sanctimonious
> media
> blitz.  It seems to me, admittedly a long way from New York, that few are
> making a big deal of it.  This appears to confirm something Doug has
> mentioned in several of his recent podcasts - that US society and culture
> has lost a great deal of its vitality.
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> Well. What would the stories talk about? How well the first responders were
> treated? How successful our campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have been? How
> the fight against terrorism has reinvigorated the country? That we caught
> bin Laden? Big woop!
>
> Vitality gone? Yes. But also, there are just no good stories to tell.
>
> Joanna
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