It's weird I can remember room, seat number reaction what I wore, but I suppose every generation has an event like that. JFK, Lennon Dimebag from pantera, but it is amazing how one act can mark a decade. 9/11 was a change in the world in how people thought and was something more than an attack it was a catalyst for many ideolo=gies to take power for social control, for religious war and for liberal pc but if we weren't x then they wouldn't hate us pandering.
9/11 needs to be remembered but we need to remember the people and the event. the catalyst and when we as scholars write about the post 9/11 world make sure we do not diminish it or any other world changing linchpin. Forgetting the human cost in the rush to talk about it's affect on art, music and literature.
take the game chrononauts there are linchpins in time change those it flips the world for example if JFK survived but Reagan didn't and Lennon did, Nixon would have been impeached and senator Lennon legalises pot in the early 90's or so say the games designers anyway. just imagine how one event which burns itself into the collective psyche can control the next decade and beyond. something to consider or the musings of a sleep eprived scholar? you decide.
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