Remember like six months ago when millions of documents were released that detail how our government is full of sadistic pedophiles and then nothing happened? Like literally nothing at all?
One reason 9/11 looms so large for millennials is that in retrospect it heralded the collapse of so much else: the economy, the environment, literacy, culture. Those falling towers are a perfect visual image of the past 25 years. We’ve been watching towers fall every day since.