Subnostr

I didn't mean my comment as a criticism of you. This was just the 3rd or 4th unprovoked left vs right post I had seen today, and it's something that's been bothering me for a while. It's so counterproductive and destructive to the collective discourse.

I don't know if you were around for 9/11, but one of the few good things to come from it was this sense of national unity that swept across the country in the days and weeks that followed. For that brief time, left and right didn't exist. We felt a closeness and solidarity that felt so good even when the focal point was something so horrible.

We lost that connection somewhere along the way, when it was us against the world, and we were all ready to fight on behalf of each other. I want to get back to that sense of unity. And posts like these are just a reminder of how far we've fallen.

Marakesh 𓅦 1y ago

That post-9/11 unity was because for a time they had fooled practically everybody.

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SLCW 1y ago

No, the sense of unity came from such a shocking attack on the nation. I was in Manhattan that day, and witnessed firsthand the collective shell-shock, and desperate searching for something normal and familiar to latch onto. And when we reached out, we found another American just like us who was experiencing and feeling the same thing. Then came the anger, the resolve, and the strength we felt when we stood together in defiance. Notions of conspiracy theories and other nonsense had nothing to do with it.