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My feeling is that discussion of this issue includes a lot of people implying things, making vague accusations. I feel it’s useful to get specific about the claims so readers can understand them.


Fair enough. And I'm glad you did, because it turned what was a sardonic throwaway comment by myself - "Oh they like burning skyscrapers not bridges" - into some real reflection, for a few of us, me included, researching and thinking a bit more deeply about it.

9/11 is a turning point in world history. Even today, much of what's going on in the digital world around cybersecurity, digital rights and software design is reverberating from what happened two decades ago. I have people close to me still living with the PTSD.

I think for some of the current generation who cannot directly remember it but live in the shadow, it's what WW2 was to mine.

For them it's important to keep clarity, and not give in to myths, convenient narratives and conspiracy theories. And that takes constant courage.

Looking back at it, it's beyond insane. We waged two theatres of war against completely the wrong countries, killed millions and wrecked our own culture, waged disinformation psyops on our own people to maintain a lie, for what?

And despite shooting Bin Laden - which was never a trial or any kind of real justice by our standards of civilisation, I can't help thinking the bad guys just got away with it all.

And there they are, still talking about "petrodollars" while the climate fails and the planet burns.




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