Is it safe to say we are living in a post, post-9/11 world?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

We are post nothing. 9/11 was only a temporary blip in the wider scale of things, the "War on terror" was only a sales pitch and a gimmick catchphrase popular with a certain type of voter, nothing more.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

has the post-9/11 mentality of 2001-2004 worn off?

I think you just answered your question.

sshhh.. Don't accuse of Naso of logical consistency.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Don't get angry at me just because you guys helped elect a coward in the White House. The guy is so whipped.

Naso, do you think in anything else other than trite Hollywood cliches, I mean, come on, there must be a soul - an essense of you - free from such bollocks.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Instead of all jumping on the partisan and somewhat inane nature of Naso's post, perhaps we should shift this and ask whether we are living in a world that is culturally 'post-9/11'?

'Postcolonialism' has produced some of the finest literature in history - in my opinion at least - both from the metropole and the periphery; while 9/11 may pale in significance as an 'event' in comparison, do we think that this has had and will continue to have a major cultural impact? I can think of a few works that have been described as being culturally 'post-9/11' - Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, which I admit to not having read so I can't really comment - but is this the dawning of a new cultural and literary movement or is it just - as Gully put it - a 'blip'?

In (semi) popular culture (ie. The Cinema; the only one I'm fit to speak about) a dreary drabness has been replaced by... an even drearier drabness and misanthropy which mistakes itself for art. I despair.