I'm not saying 9/11 wasn't huge, it was. But the question was 'are things getting crazier out there?'. The governments reacting to 9/11 were inertial carry-overs from the Cold War era. 2001 - 10 years after the USSR collapsed. Many in the Bush Admin had roots in the Reagan administration from the 80s. Their reaction was conventional, even if argued to be draconian on the homefront. The war on terror was not a crazy response to a world seemingly rife with Islamic terror. I'm not advocating or defending it, how it was executed, nothing like that, just saying it wasn't a crazy response. The day of 9/11 was crazy, that's burnt into my soul, I can still get really emotional thinking bout it almost 20 years on. I understand the actual Boomers' feelings about JFK being assassinated. That had to be 'but how?' craziness too. But, like then, after 9/11 the world resumed a rational course in reaction to an irrational happening.
Today seems like crazy town all over, and Trump I'm hoping is a curative to crazytown, but he himself is a sledgehammer of destruction, so using Chaos to defeat Chaos is always a dangerous move.
