>>8106573i dont know if you can blame neoliberals totally. we were a consumerist society, and still for the most part are. I think the towers were the pinnacle of the post-ww2/Age of America. Now when i say Age of America i dont mean the west i mean only and only the USA. Europe in many way still has not recovered from WW2, look at the cult of self-hatred in Germany today and the equal rise of far-right empty brains, both of which are bad in my opinion.
i agree with you that we had some "ideal world" i look back and at the nostalgia of the time we were insulated, things still felt far away. The thing we lost most is common sense. simple common sense. society in the US is suffering because of this rise in stupidity on all sides and a lack of acknowledgement of what is wrong with them.
Now we live in an age of depression, not necessarily economic, but one where people born from 1980-2000 have nothing to look forward too. Will we have retirement? Will we own our own homes? hell can we even rent now? There is a lack of natural fulfillment in our society as well but that goes with the rise of degeneracy. Our World is burning down around us and i dont know if we can hope for the future.
what 9/11 did was as you said break us out of the hypnosis and break the mask.