Today deserves to be forgotten.

 

Another year since the day when my life, alongside untold millions of others, was essentially ruined forever.

As always- the correct response was to have no-sold it. 

Clean the mess, mourn the dead, and do absolutely nothing to let it affect way of life.

Instead *everything* was done wrong, and a developing global standard of communal living was crippled forever. Decades on, the world is a much more horrible place. The United States is drowning in fear and cowardice, most of its people too incomplete to qualify for the freedoms they pretend at. That state of being has sunk into many other places around the world, stealing choice, creativity, and hope from billions of people while warmongers and thieves in the corporatocracy carve up the general public by demographic for sale.

I've never stopped being angry that I had my probable career torpedoed that day. Year of planning and preparation, obliterated in an instant four days from success. But somehow things managed to get even worse.

It's been 22 years. Still get bullied by armed mallcops for bringing a travel-size mouthwash or a manicure kit, even just a nail clipper, onto a plane. No valid reason, just security theatre, manufactured by a bunch of sniveling chickenshits who want to maintain a culture of forced obedience and armed oppression. The TSA is a public health and cultural hazard that should be wiped out. Period.

Balance that against, say, an ongoing pandemic? Where for months at a time, as many people were dying every single day as were in the Towers? That was sloughed off, marginalized, talked down as 'no big deal'. The relentless push towards "back to the office" to feed the avarice of lesser men with greater pull, to protect a relentlessly exploitative and broken status quo. 

The callous disregard for anything resembling public safety, to the extent that now people are walking around hospitals maskless when a upward of a hundred thousand new people* are infected every week in the US alone. People with money and time can isolate, but it's gone endemic when it didn't have to, and it happened purely through selfishness enabling willful ignorance in the name of "normal". Unethical in the extreme. Reckless, greedy, cruel, and absolutely unforgivable.

Two things that changed the country and the world for the worse. Both handled completely backward, completely wrongly, and no one responsible or complicit is every likely to suffer as they ought.

The only thing to 'never forget' about such things is the betrayal. Of obligation to community, and the subsequent losses of the trust, confidence, and identity.

*I have to extrapolate from the existing reliable data patterns because the CDC stopped counting back in May.