> I don't think it was so much a case of anyone
> waking up to reality, as reality suddenly,
> violently, and powerfully undergoing a huge
> paradigm shift, where the evil geniuses
> in their evil secret underground hideouts
> were suddenly and shockingly revealed as
> having the actual power to engage in the
> kind of mass destruction that had
> hitherto been relegated to James Bond type
> fantasies.
>
> But I may be wrong ?
Yes, you are wrong. Morally, intellectually, all kinds of ways. But your point above was pretty much right. We still have a tendency to think that if some horrible event is over across some ocean, it is someone else's problem and won't ever affect us here.
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