I'm reading Joan Didion's essay
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11. from the
New York Review, which was later published as a very slim volume book. Written in 2003, it is a reflection on the two weeks following the initial attack and the rhetoric wars they birthed.
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In fact it was in the reflexive repetition of the word "hero" that we began to hear what would become in the year that followed an entrenched preference for ignoring the meaning of the event in favour of an impenetrably flattening celebration of its victims, and a troublingly belligerent idealisation of historical ignorance.
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