There are stages of grief, and some folks get stuck in one stage or the other, depending on the gravity of the loss. In a relationship, the gravity depending on attachment and intensity, and time passed. If enough time passes with this event, with masses of people stuck in what should be a passing denial stage, you tend to get seriously fucked-up ways of thinking, as most who are interested in meaning and substance beyond some addictive chemical release of dopamine, or a Levi-rise, have seen here on the Sift, as your reliable nay-sayers, pop in and out with some cut-and-paste-, parroted, explanation, as to why it is absurd to believe conspiracies, yadda yadda yadda, ad infinitum, go fuck yerselves.

Proximity and vested interest also plays a part in the denial. This is why people in other countries, pretty much overwhelmingly side with those who say 9/11, was a carefully orchestrated, take-down of the towers, and WTC 7, for political, and financial gain. So, some of the pseudo-intellectual twits among us, would do well with a simple translation: THE DESTRUCTION OF THESE SYMBOLIC STRUCTURES, THE TIMING, THE "OFFICIAL", SO-CALLED, INVESTIGATION, THE OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE TO THE "OFFICIAL" STORY, ALL POINT TO ONE THING-THE "TERRORISTS", ARE NOT WHO YOU THINK THEY ARE, THE U.S. GOVT. IS NOT WHAT YOU IMAGINE IT TO BE, AND SOME PEOPLE, ARE MAKING AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY, BY CONSIDERING THE MASSES IDIOTS....which, unfortunately for us masses, is predictably true.

When history is re-written concerning these events, and school children in 2025, remember some imaginary buildings called the Worldwide Trade Center (name changed to further re-program the meatbot) they will understand that no matter what happened on that day in 1999, it is much better to sit quiet and still, take what you are given, remain calm, and return to their regularly, programmed, schedule.