Susan Sontag was right
Susan Sontag was right Today’s authoritarian regime of punitive mass infantilization started 9/11/2001 Michael Meurer After the twin towers in Manhattan were reduced to rubble Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the New Yorker commissioned a group of their top writers to pen brief essays about the event. Most of these epistles have passed into oblivion with little notice, but the briefest essay among them by Susan Sontag caused a disproportionate eruption of outrage in both official government circles and the media organs dedicated to amplifying their messages. It is still controversial today. Photo of Susan Sontag courtesy of Wikipedia An excerpt from Ms. Sontag’s comments. The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize...