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The historical rupture of 9/11 quickly overshadowed that which was supposed to happen by the end of the Cold War. It was not only the Twin Towers that collapsed in an hour and 42 minutes following the impact of commercial planes weaponized by Islamic terrorists, but an entire edifice of liberal theories, hopes and dreams of the end of history and the onset of Kantian peace. Rarely in human history do entire societies’ futures change so quickly. What followed was great global confusion that, with the recent turmoil in Afghanistan, seems to only be worsening.
After a long period of what seemed like a greater containment of violence in certain pockets of crime, civil wars and failed states, the violence of a sacred and existential kind shattered those dreams with an almost superhuman speed. On 9/11, the world witnessed an unprecedented shift in the nature and scale of sudden, unexpected social violence. Not only did violence proliferate, but it also grew more brutal to a nearly mythological level. Such brutal violence in New York was only the beginning of a globalized era of more violence, gore and madness. It coincided with quicker and more efficient modes of communication that culminated in high-definition footage of beheadings in Raqa and drowned children washing up on European shores.
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