The Power of Bad Ideas

Up until the moment that the second plane hit, it was possible to imagine that what had happened at the north tower had been an accident. There were 17 minutes between flight 11 hitting the north tower and flight one 75 hitting the south so there were 17 min s to live with the illusion that we were witnessing a tragic accident and its horrible aftermath. In those 17 minutes, many things happened that are very hard to think about, and some seem very hard to understand.