I will never be able to understand how Dave Winer can write this sort of nonsense,
An event like 9-11 brings us to gather, and events that do that, no matter how much grief they create, are wonderful, rich, powerful, enlivening, and believe it or not, healing. It’s easier to see that one year later. We’ve been through so much, together, we were able to weep for the dead, close the wound, reunite, and move forward.
. . . In a way 9-11-01 was a gift. It gave us a shared memory, a real one, a heart-reaching one. Yesterday we did normal stuff. But we also paused to reflect and share, to think, to remember.
It was a terrorist attack, Dave, not some sort of goddamned New Age therapy session.