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"Cloverfield"

Do we really need the horror of 9/11 to be repackaged and presented to us as an amusement-park ride?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, January 18, 2008 10:55 AM

    @Peter Lyden

    You missed my follow-up. If you were there, you may be still traumatized, and nobody would deny you the horror of your experiences.

    It's folks like me, at "the intersection of Old Rt 66" (yada) who have little reason to keep carrying on about it. I.e., the vast majority of Americans.

    We don't have any compelling reason to avoid seeing a scary movie, or voting for the latest right-wing totalitarian, out of fear of re-living that experience, because we never lived it. Regardless of all the bloviating that was done about "9-11"™ for more than a full year thereafter, and to this very day.

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