Well, despite my ranting regarding keeping a day of silence on 9\/11, I actually did pretty much that thing, after that initial post. I didn’t stay offline — I ended up checking most of my regular haunts. But most folks, too, had little to say, aside from an initial commentary.<\/p>\n
Actually, all things considered, at most of the places I visited it was a day curiously without rancor. 9\/11 not only revealed that we in the US had been living in something of a fairyland of childish ignorance, but the reaction to it revealed some serious fissures in American self-image, vision, and political philosophy. For all the venom that has been spewed (from all sides) over the last two years, yesterday was remarkably calm.<\/p>\n
What I did <\/i>avoid was listening much to the radio. I listened to music, instead, courtesy of the van’s CD player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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