This needs to be read by more people

[mousme]

I rarely post links in my LJ apart from the occasional amusing picture. Even more rarely do I say anything at all about 9/11. That topic has been discussed until no one knows what's truth and fiction anymore.

wolflady26 linked to this post, and I'm very glad I read it. It's nothing we don't know already, and while it's about 9/11 and war in general and the U.S., it's not a political post. It's a post about the meaning and the importance of truth.

Like wolflady26 I'm finding it difficult to explain exactly why it's important that people should read it. Let's just say that it's more than worthwhile to click the link and read. It'll take ten minutes at most if you're a really slow reader, and even if you don't agree with a single word, it's still worth it.

Comments

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I had more things I wanted to say about it, but I'm trying to prepare for my game and I don't have time to write it all down right now. Like, a story from one eye-witness 50 years after the fact isn't necessarily 'the truth' either, although I'm sure it was very interesting and moving. And, people always try to fit the events of their lives into some kind of story, and that's not necessarily a horrible thing - it's a way of processing what's happened and coming to grips with it. And, also, these docudramas will be useful sources for historians in fifty years who are trying to understand what people now thought about recent events, and if we place a moratorium on movies and books about historical events until after some certain amount of time has passed, we lose the immediacy of the aftermath, etc.

Maybe I'll write a post about it this evening, if I'm not too wiped :)

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Yes.... It is interesting to see how people react to and (re)present these events, and how people react to that, and why they do so, etc, etc. You can learn a lot about people from watchig how they react to propaganda.

One of the folklorists here at A&M studies the development of spontaneous shrines, and I think she did some work on the ones that develloped in New York right after the attacks. I always thought that was interesting

One or two movies are not the be all and end all of people's exposure or experience of an event like 911. I suspect that the movie is going to freshen the memories of how they dealt witrh that for a lot of people. It was only five years ago.

[curtana.livejournal.com]

One or two movies are not the be all and end all of people's exposure or experience of an event like 911. I suspect that the movie is going to freshen the memories of how they dealt witrh that for a lot of people. It was only five years ago.

Exactly. In fact, because it's still fresh in people's minds, I'd hope they're more likely to question whether what they're watching is accurate or not, because they can compare it with their own memories about the events in question.