Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

When Everyone Is Hitler, We Have No Perspective.

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

Thad Zajac
May 18, 2016
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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 …

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