While I understand the strong emotions involved in wanting to "replay" all of the events of 9/11, I think it's important for at least one voice on this forum to point out that in spiritual terms what we're talking about is classic attachment to a set of afflictive emotions, and a conscious attempt to *stay* attached.
9/11 inspired for Americans a very real and palpable sense of several afflictive emotions -- fear, anger, outrage, and the desire for revenge. ALL of these emotions have basically defined the national character of the United States Of America in the ten years since the event. Indulging in these afflictive emotions has cost the country its stature, its credibility, its civil liberties, trillions of dollars, thousands of lost lives, the bankruptcy of its economy, and more. So what does the country -- aided by the same media that supported its unconscionable post-9/11 wars and loss of its own liberties -- DO when confronted by the ten-year anniversary of 9/11? They stage an over-the-top media frenzy, the very *idea* of which is to get viewers to wallow in the afflictive emotions of the original event as much as humanly possible, to bring them to the top of everyone's emotional processing stack, and activate them again. Starting to feel as if there is more to life than fear, anger, outrage, and the desire for revenge? That's UnAmerican. Watch these videos, and you'll be politically correct again, wallowing in the same afflictive emotions you've been wallowing in for the last ten years. GOTTA perpetuate the fear. GOTTA perpetuate the anger. GOTTA perpetuate the outrage. GOTTA perpetuate the desire for revenge. Just GOTTA. It's the American way. The Spanish got over having one of their bullet trains bombed by terrorists in a month, without descending into the maelstrom of hate and lashing out that America did. The British public did mostly the same thing w.r.t. the bombings in the London Underground (mostly...its government went the other direction, and tried to emulate the American way of indulgence in these afflictive emotions). Americans? They just seem to want more of the same. I would suspect that this media indulgence in the past probably got the highest ratings of any TV shows in years. And I also suspect that as a result many in yesterday's audience are as established in wallowing in the same afflictive emotions today as they were on 9/12/2001. THAT, in my opinion, was the whole point.
