Remembering the cultural legacy of 9/11

[discoberry]

I thought that this was pretty interesting. As well as an interesting trip down memory lane.

At the Television Critics Association press tour earlier that summer, the "Band of Brothers" press conference was dominated by questions about whether the filmmakers ever thought there could be another world war, and if so, whether the current generation of young Americans could meet the challenge as their great-grandparents had.

www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/08/26/friday_night_seitz_culture_of_9_11/slideshow.html

[Shane for Wax]

Michael Bay's film "Pearl Harbor" (May 25, 2001) turned the worst prior attack on the U.S. into a three-hour Coke commercial while expressing a weirdly robotic nostalgia for a time of clean-cut romances and clear-cut struggles between good and evil; there was even a scene where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), warned by a general that a swift, ambitious counterattack against the Japanese was impossible, hauled himself up out of his wheelchair and barked, "Do not tell me it can't be done!"

XDDDDD Hahaha.

[Art Vandelay]

I most remember this little tidbit.

I thought it was the greatest thing on the planet when I first saw it.

[Dragon Zachski]

Aug 27, 2011 22:01:20 GMT -5 Art Vandelay said:

I most remember this little tidbit.

I thought it was the greatest thing on the planet when I first saw it.

You, too?

I've been looking for that for awhile, actually.

That being said, I think that 9/11 was indeed one of the worst things to happen to America, but not just because it was a brutal, senseless massacre.

Because it turned us, as a nation, into monsters.

And honestly, as tragic as it is, we should never forget, but that doesn't mean we should never move on, either. And right now, what we need more than anything, as a nation (well, perhaps not as much as we need a fixed economy) is to move on from it.

[Jodie]

Aug 27, 2011 22:01:20 GMT -5 Art Vandelay said:

I most remember this little tidbit.

I thought it was the greatest thing on the planet when I first saw it.

I have never seen that before - it's hilarious!

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Aug 27, 2011 22:32:24 GMT -5 Dragon Zachski said:

That being said, I think that 9/11 was indeed one of the worst things to happen to America, but not just because it was a brutal, senseless massacre.

The single best way to honour the dead is to learn something from all of this. 9/11 was a prime example of the atrocities to which hate leads. Further perpetuating the cycle is pretty much a slap in the face for the victims and their families -- the least we could do for them is bring some semblance of meaning to their deaths by using this opportunity to educate ourselves, and apply that knowledge towards potentially saving lives in the future.

[Dragon Zachski]

Aug 28, 2011 5:04:19 GMT -5 Mlle Antéchrist said:

Aug 27, 2011 22:32:24 GMT -5 Dragon Zachski said:

That being said, I think that 9/11 was indeed one of the worst things to happen to America, but not just because it was a brutal, senseless massacre.

The single best way to honour the dead is to learn something from all of this. 9/11 was a prime example of the atrocities to which hate leads. Further perpetuating the cycle is pretty much a slap in the face for the victims and their families -- the least we could do for them is bring some semblance of meaning to their deaths by using this opportunity to educate ourselves, and apply that knowledge towards potentially saving lives in the future.

Agreed.

Unfortunately, we're not learning from it, we are just perpetuating the cycle.