People think 1980s stories like Fright Night, The Lost Boys, or IT are ridiculous when in real life hundreds of Scottish kids responded to a rumor of a 7 foot vampire eating children by ARMING THEMSELVES AND GOING TO A CEMETERY TO HUNT IT DOWN.
Since you weren’t even born yet, I’m going to answer in good faith:
9/11 was America’s collective loss of innocence. In the decades prior, we’d won the Cold War by outspending the Soviets. We were the sole remaining superpower, and we were in a period of peace and economic prosperity.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, we suffered a suicide attack with a higher death toll than Pearl Harbor. It struck a city on the US mainland, the first attack of that scale to hit CONUS since the Civil War.
In a violent flash, and on live television, our collective illusions of safety, security, and peace disappeared. For most Americans, it was the first time we ever had to contend with that scale of horror, and what it implied about the fragility of our way of life.
It was simultaneously sobering and terrifying. The American response was to launch two wars, and to restructure domestic life around the Government’s presumed duty to spy on everyone, so nothing like it could ever happen again.
I am not being hyperbolic when I say the America we grew up in—imagined or not—vanished on 9/11.
What you’re calling a “worshipful attitude” is a mix of reverence for the dead, and mourning for the loss of what existed before.
The Rebel is part of the American Myth. Or rather the revolution is.
We WILL keep telling that story for better and worse.
Unfortunately, the drawback to this is that we've lost sight of how special the American revolution is. It's a unicorn in history, and almost every other revolution leaves the population worse than it started
And yet the leaders of our little rebellions were kingly men that had no desire to be kings. We need to tell that myth, but we have to tell it right.
I would love to watch a documentary about the downfall of colour grading in recent films. Like is it a lost skill? Do film makers believe the gray/dull/dark colouring is better? I genuinely want to know the purpose of removing any warmth from movies nowadays.
I can't believe Beatbreak and this DLC are about to outdate this image by making him rack up two more L's since I made it last year. They're calling him the most legendary jobber of all time