‘‘Society’s innocence and optimism’’ lol
After 9/11 all the burger ppl were like “omg why would anyone do this to us” and just a few months earlier they were publishing the most bloodthirsty ass shit about Serbia and then have the gall to be upset when most of the third world erupted in celebration
They cry and cope about 2 buildings for 20+ years while they destroyed whole countries and killed and tortured millions and still do to this day
Technically 3 buildings but yes
“A whole generation could no longer sleep soundly at night, because of that image of the twin towers falling.” – pretty much every TV program on 9/11 ever made.
Yeah, if you were a total idiot with no sense of reality. I was a kid at the time, and I knew perfectly well Al-Qaeda wasn’t going to fly a jet into my house. And my father pointed out (it lost him a lot of friends) that because of the US military, a whole lot of people in the world did have to worry about what some airplane would do to them while they were sleeping.
Also gaslightin those countries and their population all way through.
Ah the ol’ Murikkkan exceptionalism, the 80s and 90s are “the good old days” for them. A horrific time for former nations which made up Yugoslavia and the USSR…
At first it didn’t seem too bad, as I agree that 9/11 was a helpful justification for the surveillance state, but later he suggests that the Ills of capitalism didn’t exist until the 21st century. What no understanding of dialectical materialism does to a cracker.
Those who think that are rich people in the west, the rest of the planet was living in horrible times, like in Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, etc.
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Where did this myth about the supposed “optimism” of the 90s come from? I remember the government and media pushing the Glorious Capitalist Future in a big way, and of course you had idiot academics like Francis Fukuyama, but most people didn’t particularly seem to buy it. The 90s mostly struck me as a cynical, fearful era, where everybody thought their neighbor might be a pedophile serial killer, or (worse) a Milosevic sympathizer.
And that was just in the US. Everywhere else, the 90s were a hellhole.
