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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...aware of the deeper world as well as the wider. For the period in question, America has been hydroplaning on the present, creating and devouring a culture consisting of relentless ephemera. The intellectual so-called life became deconstructionist game playing, politics became claptrap, "globalization" became internationalism for shoppers. Our superpowerhood fed feelings of omnipotence and self-righteousness (remember the "City on a Hill"?), which in turn created a false sense of immunity. On Sept. 11, airplanes crashed into two cities on a hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back Into The Fray Of History | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

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