I am sorry but giving as much space in our minds to 9/11
and terrorism
is a distortion of history
History is another word for collective memory
By suggesting that 9/11 ended the "American Century"
you get the image of a wonderful century
laid low by 9/11
It was not a wonderful century
It was a defeat of progressive principles
by the acceptance and prosecution of war and violence
buttressed by a bullying military industrial complex
that still rules
in tandem with big oil and the ideology of sprawl
the car consumption whatever you wish to call it
History remains the struggle of values
for a place in the human heart soul and mind
Our values are mostly half-baked and unformed
Nevertheless while we are gorging ourselves
on the Cold War and Terror
the democratic revolution is brewing
and that is the leader of history still
Why so
Because democracy along with tolerance
helpfulness and non-idolatry
is an ontological value which
freely chosen
propels history
9/11 and the military automobile sprawl era
will be part of what we will one day
be glad is over.
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