The first thing rejected in the war on terror is contextalizing nine 11 in any sense of historical and material circumstance. The culture of nine 11 ensures that it is what we would understand to day as a cancel culture. It is an exceptionally censorious culture. And while some s uneasily twentieth century leftism, late twentieth century american leftism. But this, you know, for the world trade centers perspective, not in not a military target,. That horror, that indelible sense of vulnerability and that search for meaning has never been eradicated.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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