What have we learned since 9/11?

[Precisely]

As individuals. Collectively. About our nation. Ourselves. Each other.

About what we can control and what we can't.

About what we do about it.

How everything's changed.

[joeybee12]

1. My simple answer: "not much" nt

[whatchamacallit]

2. We are ruled by fear and emotion.

[Precisely]

4. and corporations

that seems to be accepted now ...

Good point, whatchamacallit

[Romulox]

3. #1) Basically everything they've told me since I was a child is a lie. nt

[Precisely]

10. ouch

[el_bryanto]

5. No matter how bad you think things are - they're probably worse. nt

[Precisely]

9. Been down so long

it looks like up to me

[NuclearDem]

6. Key lesson:

Turrists hate us for our freedoms, so we should start getting rid of a few of them.

[Precisely]

8. Got any left?

You are free to disagree.

Hilarious post ND.

[NuclearDem]

11. Sadly, I can't find that great clip from Futurama.

"We're free to choose which hand our sex monitoring chip is implanted in. And if we don't want to pay our taxes, why, we're free to spend a weekend with the Pain Monster!"

[Precisely]

13. Hahaha

You are free to choose a gold or plastic iPhone!!

[Precisely]

7. Steve Jobs is Big Brother

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/09/apples-big-iphone-reveal-here/69249/

[Sivafae]

12. That given the right circumstances, Gov't will demand more power for itself while

lessening individual freedom.

[Precisely]

14. oh we knew that before

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. We should have learned that fighting mosquitoes with sledgehammers is profitable but...

only produces more mosquitoes.

[Precisely]

17. Laughing and crying at that one

[Myrina]

16. What I saw on Twitter this morning:

... from an 18 year old kid .... his memory of that morning "hearing about the attack on my way to preschool" ... (emphasis added).

We have an entire generation growing up spoon-fed the mythology of 9/11, the unitary Executive, fewer and fewer civil liberties, perpetual pre-emptive war ... and they don't question ANY of it because they have no recollection of 'life before it'.


Makes me really scared for the future of this country.

[Precisely]

18. It's weird, isn't it?

History being rewritten.
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