Comments on: remember the eleventh of september http://blog.bradleyrichert.com/2006/09/11/remember-the-eleventh-of-september/ a work in progress Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: brad richert http://blog.bradleyrichert.com/2006/09/11/remember-the-eleventh-of-september/#comment-52 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:02:26 +0000 http://blog.bradleyrichert.com/2006/09/11/remember-the-eleventh-of-september/#comment-52 Thanks for the resources, I will make sure to check them out. The purpose of this post was meant to target that sentimentalization you recognize. There is definitely no doubt in my mind about the seemingly unlimited greed of other vultures surrounding the tragedy of 9/11... from Silverstein himself trying to claim two seperate acts of insurance rather than one, to enforcing a police-like state in America, to corporate handouts in Iraq. I like to deal with one greedy deed at a time :) I think that I chose to focus on Hollywood because it has this impenetrable effect on everyone in our society. Not all of us travel via air (and if we do, it usually is not all the time). Not all of us are directly effected by the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Not all of us are effected by the New York skyline. We all, except for some old-order Mennonites, have television and watch movies. We do not usually think twice about the films we go see and who it supports and what the films are trying to indoctrinate into our mind. I mean, I could write a post about all the greediness surrounding 9/11... but I think that it would probably end up being longer than 9/11 commission's report. Thanks for the resources, I will make sure to check them out.

The purpose of this post was meant to target that sentimentalization you recognize. There is definitely no doubt in my mind about the seemingly unlimited greed of other vultures surrounding the tragedy of 9/11… from Silverstein himself trying to claim two seperate acts of insurance rather than one, to enforcing a police-like state in America, to corporate handouts in Iraq.

I like to deal with one greedy deed at a time :) I think that I chose to focus on Hollywood because it has this impenetrable effect on everyone in our society. Not all of us travel via air (and if we do, it usually is not all the time). Not all of us are directly effected by the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Not all of us are effected by the New York skyline. We all, except for some old-order Mennonites, have television and watch movies. We do not usually think twice about the films we go see and who it supports and what the films are trying to indoctrinate into our mind.

I mean, I could write a post about all the greediness surrounding 9/11… but I think that it would probably end up being longer than 9/11 commission’s report.

]]> by: khalidmir http://blog.bradleyrichert.com/2006/09/11/remember-the-eleventh-of-september/#comment-51 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:34:40 +0000 http://blog.bradleyrichert.com/2006/09/11/remember-the-eleventh-of-september/#comment-51 Brad, hello. I didn't think the power of nightmares was that good. If you get the chance you must see his 'Century of the Self'. Have you read Mike Davis' 'New York Flames' (on fear) or a great article in the London Review of Books called Hell-fire Nation? (both online) On this post: you talk about people making money from 9/11 but there's no mention of the mutli-billion dollar 'industry' that has developed as a result of the homeland security department and contracts for 'security goods'. And one could also, perhaps, point out the oil and construction contracts that have followed the war on Iraq-that is, if one continues to follow Bush's rhetoric that Iraq is part of the WoT ! would you say that that's a greediness of a different order? on the whole I agree with you though. This cheap sentimentalisation and infantilisation of a whole population-something that is happening here as well-is thoroughly depressing. Brad, hello.
I didn’t think the power of nightmares was that good. If you get the chance you must see his ‘Century of the Self’. Have you read Mike Davis’ ‘New York Flames’ (on fear) or a great article in the London Review of Books called Hell-fire Nation? (both online)

On this post: you talk about people making money from 9/11 but there’s no mention of the mutli-billion dollar ‘industry’ that has developed as a result of the homeland security department and contracts for ’security goods’. And one could also, perhaps, point out the oil and construction contracts that have followed the war on Iraq-that is, if one continues to follow Bush’s rhetoric that Iraq is part of the WoT !

would you say that that’s a greediness of a different order?

on the whole I agree with you though. This cheap sentimentalisation and infantilisation of a whole population-something that is happening here as well-is thoroughly depressing.

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