Stop the Idiocracy: The reverberations of 11 September 2001

Friday, September 11, 2026

The reverberations of 11 September 2001 — from cinders unto an age of darkness

An aerial photograph of Lower Manhattan on 11 September 2001 captures the World Trade Center amid catastrophic destruction. One tower remains standing but is engulfed by immense billowing clouds of dark grey smoke from its upper floors, while enormous pale clouds of dust and debris spread through the surrounding streets and obscure much of the neighbouring skyline. Nearby office towers emerge intermittently from the haze beneath a bright blue-white sky. The elevated perspective conveys the extraordinary scale of the disaster, with the surviving skyscraper rising starkly above a landscape rapidly disappearing beneath smoke and dust.

photo: Det. Greg Semendinger, NYPD

Twenty-five years ago today. And from thence it hath been all downhill. Indeed, in looking back, certain harbingers of doom presented themselves beforehand, yet if we are to mark the beginning of America's ongoing collapse in earnest, it is unquestionably 11 September 2001. I was twenty-three then, and squandering my prime years upon garbage people and worthless vanities. And I really do not much like remembering that day, or that particular season of my life; collectively, we simply never did recover from it.

In lieu of any further commemoration, I shall only offer my gratitude to those heroes who set themselves in harm's way, together with the reflection that those so senselessly lost have, alas, missed little of lasting worth, beyond bearing witness to their country — and much of the wider world besides — descending into the proverbial sewer. It hath truly proven a wretched quarter-century; and yet some souls may one day recall our present age as the 'good ol' days', when measured against the horrors that very likely await in the next twenty-five years.

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