When Everyone Is Hitler, We Have No Perspective.

We can’t agree on facts, so we resort to hyperbole.

We can’t agree on facts, so we resort to hyperbole.

9/11 wasn’t just a terrorist attack, or a tragedy. It changed us fundamentally. It removed the boundaries that kept our sense of perspective in check. Osama bin Laden was our new existential threat, then it became Saddam Hussein (again), and then it became the amorphous “terror,” currently found in the …