Just today, I was chatting with a revered Hillsborough businesswoman when she said: "I was 10 when I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and I asked my Mom how this could have happened. And she said, 'There's something wrong with the German people.' But, no! It's not that there's something wrong with the German people. There's something wrong with PEOPLE."
For 20 years I have argued that 9/11 launched The National Lunacy.
And I still think this eruption of craziness on 9/11 was attributable to bin Laden's successful terrorization of the American people.
Lemming-like, we threw ourselves into his arms - eager accomplices.
Bin Laden wanted to lay waste to the United States and the open society it embodied.
And he succeeded: couldn't have done it without us.
Faulty Risk Assessment: "Self-Terrorization Is The National Pastime"
Clearly, my view of 9/11 may be entirely independent of Umair's argument (below) concerning the craziness of renascent right-wing fascism.
But perhaps both tendencies are "fevers," and maybe -- just maybe -- these twin fevers (like fevers generally) will suddenly break.
Or, maybe we're entering another Dark Age.
In 1997, Carl Sagan saw it happening and wrote eloquently about it in "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark." (See second comment below.)
Ken Burns' new documentary, "The U.S. And The Holocaust"
https://www.pbs.org/show/us-and-holocaust/
Burns asks how the American people -- endowed with so many good traits -- can simultaneously harbor
so much ethnic and cultural disdain and hatred.
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