ten years later

As horrifying as the attacks were, it is also horrifying to thing about how little has been made of the opportunities for change that 9/11 brought. American culture has budged little from the attitudes that fueled the disdain that resulted in the attacks. Today's politics are governed by more - not less - of the sort of ideology that Dick Cheney represented when he stated that "the American way of life is non-negotiable." Even the 2008 financial collapse, rife as it was with signs that our economic systems are flawed and unjust, resulted in no real change to those systems (nor - incredibly - in any judiciary action)....

September 12, 2001, could have been a date from which Americans measured anew the progress of our nation. It could have been a time to reconsider our priorities. Instead it ushered in an era of aggression, self-interest, and shortsightedness.

-- From the editors of Orion Magazine

Sometimes, more than others, this gets to me.