One of our writers asked if we were going to do anything about 9/11.

I said we should, then we really didn’t. I realized earlier this week that my memories of what happened that day are fuzzy at best. Rather than recalling the specific event - where I was, how I reacted - I’d rather emphasize how I felt because I remember that.

The nation united together more than I ever thought possible. We were all together, and even our allies stood with us. There was a general feeling of “We’re all in this together”.

It’s not the passage of time that’s changed that feeling. It’s how separated we’ve become. We’ve allowed this. It isn’t because we elected dirtbags to government. It isn’t because the media has mislead us.

It’s because we have placed more loyalty in our club memberships than we do ourselves, and those loyalties have allowed us to dehumanize those who aren’t members of our club.

It’s like we never left high school. We frown on bullying these days but we don’t have a problem doing it to those who aren’t members of our club. In fact, we encourage it, and then we act surprised when they respond in like kind.

We do this because it takes less time and effort to belittle another than it does to under who they are and why they think the way they do even if they are the polar opposite of who we are.

Perhaps it will take another incident like 9/11 to bring us back together. Even then, I wonder if it would be enough. Could we be compassionate enough to hold hands with those around us, or would we seek to blame?

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