Candas Jane Dorsey writes about September 11 in Locus.
The myth of safety: I notice with some dark amusement that Hollywood is reconsidering disaster movies, which depend on the illusion of safety to make their ever-increasing extravagance of destruction entertaining rather than alarming. Better to wipe out the genre than to require a continent full of people in denial to reconsider their group delusion and replace it with something closer to truth.
Of course, the yahoos ignored the essay except for the point where she worries about the nature of our response (and fortunately that response has been moderated).
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