I'm taking a day off from work next Monday, and plan to spend the day reading blog editorials and memorial posts as I've done in recent years, reflecting, thinking, and hopefully also writing a bit here.
I've been finding much insightful discussion and commentary on Pajamas Media's excellent Blog Week in Review podcast (one of three podcasts I currently listen to regularly, together with the Glenn and Helen Show and Penn Jillette Show), and am looking forward to listening to the September 8th edition, whose topic is the fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. I'm also currently midway through watching last year's Discovery Channel documentary “The Flight That Fought Back,” which I hope to finish later today.
It is vitally important to me that we take the intent and consequences of the September 11th, 2001 attacks seriously, and summon all the will we have to work for the survival and health of this magnificent, precious civilization of ours. I must say I feel deeply worried about our evident lack of cultural confidence, by our seeming desire to believe the seductive idea that there is no danger, and by the attacks' apparent lack of impact on certain Americans' scornful, derisive, and to me seemingly suicidal pre-9/11 rhetoric toward contemporary American culture and Western civilization.
What Bill Whittle said on the subject in January goes for me: “When it comes to cultural suicide, I'm aginn' it.” We seem to be gazing pathetically at our navels when we ought to be clapping like furies. I only hope that we will come to realize what's gone wrong in time to reverse this worrisome state of affairs.
Best wishes folks. More again soon.
