We are not all victims of 9/11, though for some reason we like to think so. I saw a documentary the other night on Tuesday’s Children. Those are victims.  Just because I felt angry and sad for a while – and flew a flag on my house – doesn’t put me in that category.

 

The Pinheads of Unprincipled Power will stop at nothing to exploit emotion and sentiment for nefarious gain.

 

Likewise, the Media.

 

Back when it happened, and for some time thereafter, it was real. Remember the hundreds of people in the streets of NYC, holding pictures of their missing loved ones?  That made me grieve.  9/11 happened in a real places to real people. 

 

Somehow over the years, it has been gradually adapted for television, packaged for consumption, edited to fit your screen and to run in the time alloted. It’s entertainment now.  And business is business.

 

Sooner or later, the ratings will dip. Sponsors will balk.  It will stop being useful as a tool to pry money out of congress for unrelated imperial ambition. Then it’ll wind up in a crate on a back lot in Burbank, along with M*A*S*H* and the cold war.

 

Cynical?  Sure. But am I wrong?