I saw this during the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York city
We’re in northern Ontario in Canada and I was with my wife and her mother. My mother in law was a great lady, tiny, Irish Canadian completely and with a heart of gold. She had lived through the second world War where she lost her husband, her husband’s brother, three other of her husband’s brothers who were in the war and a long list of friends she saw leave school to take part in the war and some of them not come back, some completely psychologically destroyed and others just surviving life.
She was making chili that morning when we got up. I turned on the TV and couldn’t believe what we were watching. It was like a movie. We watched live the first burning building and then soon after watched the second plane crash on live TV. It was surreal.
My mother in law came in and watched with us for a while. We were glued to the TV and waited for more … all day! My mother in law got up after five minutes and went back to her chili.
We told her this was historic. You can’t miss it.
She said she’s already lived through wars, near wars, threatened nuclear war, end of the world predictions, fall of the Soviet Union and a whole bunch more.
She said she felt bad for everyone but we can’t do anything right now.
She went back to cooking her chili.
There’s something called hypernormalization that I just read about.
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
Definitely.
Contrary to movie belief, it’s the little things that get you during the apocalypse. Hygiene can be considered the most important survival skill of day-to-day life.
Its never been a better time for real netrunning. The data fortresses are more insecure than you picking your first icon. Get them files, choom.
All my life Spring has always been a happy time for me. This one has just sucked, though, even though the weather has been near-perfect.
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Not me. I’m doing GREAT tasks, as the world crumbles.
