It really does seem like 9/11 was like some demonic ritual to start the summoning of Clown World.
(whether you believe the conspiracy theories or the official narrative)
Not to derail this thread but one thing I find very suspect about 9/11 is all the WW2 movies that started coming out before, starting with Saving Private Ryan in 1998 and immediately after 9/11, even down to having a Pearl Harbor movie the same exact year the "second Pearl Harbor" happened.
But it wasn't just WW2 movies either, not too long after 9/11 (so it would have been in production and filmed before) there was the movie Black Hawk Down, which depicted modern warfare, there was also the Mel Gibson movie We Were Soldiers, which was about Vietnam, but had the same tone of something like Saving Private Ryan.
It's almost as if they were getting people nostalgic for WW2 and interested in war in general in order to gear us up for the War on Terror era, it's just one of those things that seems to be too big to be coincidental, why a huge spate of war movies around the time an event that lead us to into a war happened?
To make matters worse, just this year I watched the 2002 WW2 movie Hart's War, starring Colin Farrell and Bruce Willis, which was shockingly proto Woke, because unlike a typical WW2 movie this was about a POW camp and what the plot of the movie turned out to involve was racism against blacks, to make a long story short two black air force pilots wind up in the camp alongside all the other white soldiers, a racist white soldier murders one of them and frames the other for it (the character at one point says "I was a cop in St Louis, I know what they are") and a murder trial is held in the camp and Colin Farrell acts as the lawyer, the movie draws a parallel with Nazi Germany and America's treatment of blacks, at the end of the movie Bruce Willis' character sacrifices himself to destroy a nearby secret munitions factory, but also to save the life of the black pilot, it's hard not to look at this movie in light of today's world and not think that the message is whites sacrificing their lives for the good of blacks is as valiant and heroic as being a WW2 solider or something like that, it was a well made movie, but left me with a creepy feeling.
It's the slow loss of confidence that stands out to me more than anything. I grew up looking to America, and the stories America told about itself, as something inspirational. There was a self-assured way Americans presented themselves - an optimistic outlook around what was possible, a willingness to work hard to achieve it, and an unapologetic sense of pride in their country and values. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and there was no doubt in my mind that America was a better country than where I was living. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years thinking of ways I could move there. I'm now, finally, in a position to move there and it feels bittersweet. The America I fell in love with doesn't seem to exist anymore.
The one two punch of 9/11 and the Great Recession destroyed America's confidence in ourselves, we no longer felt like we had security or financial security anymore.
Plus the economic troubles caused a resurgence in Marxist ways of thinking.
9/11 hurt us but I think America could have been ok and got our groove back, the desire to stay strong and recover was there, the Great Recession though just knocked the wind out of our sails and it's never been the same since.
I felt the entire world sour around the time Obama got elected. Before then, I distinctly remember pop culture being a very equal blind of races and Americanism being a central theme of all media. 2001-2008 was a golden era of Internet culture and general freedoms. I just remember after Obama got elected, half the country were evil racist birther rednecks and half the side was racially conscious pro-science smart people.
Things did indeed get fucking gay as soon as Obama showed up, but as I said before there was still a lot of cultural holdover from the 2000s for the first few years of his term, but right off the bat that was the climate was that "any criticism of Obama means you're racist" and that absolutely set the tone for what later became Woke.
The cult like mentality surrounding Obama is so creepy in hindsight.
