This is a great (three-part) blog post, and it's kind of fucking with my head right now.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

This one. The blog is "The Last Psychiatrist." The posts themselves is nearly fifteen years old.

I'm archiving this here because I plan to come back and expound more on it later.

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oh this part pisses me off

[solarbird]

But 9/11 was different... it violated the most important aspect of postmodern narcissism: story... even the characters were a surprise.

We didn't know they even existed. Tali what? Did anyone know the backstory?

FUCKING YES WE DID AND SOME OF US SPENT MONTHS IN 1999 TRYING TO GET LITERALLY ANYONE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THAT LITTLE EXPERIMENT THE PAKISTANI INTELLIGENCE SERVICES WERE RUNNING IN THE NORTH CALLED 'THE TALIBAN' AND FUCKING TOLD EVERYONE WE COULD WHAT...

[grips fists]

Yeah.

Still real mad about that.

Re: oh this part pisses me off

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Yeah, this is one reason why I said this article is fucking with my head. Takes that seem right-on vs takes like this one. Like...Pepperidge Farm remembers when Bill Clinton was trying to call attention to Osama Bin Laden as a threat after the bombing in Yemen in 1997, only to be accused of trying to "Wag the Dog" by republicans who were obsessed with catching him out over having had "relations with that woman."

It's no wonder they fell all over themselves in performative fury over OBL after 9/11: only to forget about him again completely a few months later (funny how that happened, considering the Bin Ladens are Bush family friends and all) until he was caught ten years later.