The visions, which were revealed yesterday, will be engraved in human memory for generations - it is still not clear as a symbol of why, and if they will not be worse than
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The Pentagon building after the attack. "What we see is not Hollywood, it's reality!"
The myth of the apocalypse - the fear of it, the warnings about it, the hallucinations about it -
It has always accompanied humanity, as a kind of nightmare of the collective subconscious.
Countless works of art have tried to deal with the fear of some disaster
Unfathomable in its scope, because of the disruption of all known world orders; but you
The thing itself - "Armageddon", "Judgment Day", "Gog and Magog" - became difficult
Even the art of conjecture and imagining: it limited itself to the realm of the symbol and metaphor,
or to distill disasters that have already happened.
The gap was filled by the American film industry, which issued a production line
A whole of disaster and terror movies full of visual effects: between
Actual mass disasters (the "Hindenburg" disaster, the sinking of the Titanic, "Pearl
Harbor", World War), and in simulations of future apocalypses
Estimated. It's like a kind of magic oath, which is actually meant to keep the horror away
To the realms of imagination, nostalgia and entertainment, to the effects department
the special ones
Yesterday - in front of a gaping world - the southern skyline was destroyed and turned into dust
Manhattan, and became the ruins of power centers in Washington - the top symbols
And the most obvious not only of American integrity and strength, but of
"Civilization as we know it".
The visions, which were unfolded yesterday one by one, will be engraved in the memory from here on
Human for generations - it is not yet clear as a symbol of why, and if they will not be bad
from them. In the age of video communication, every citizen in the world can now see for himself
His eyes, and live, even the most mythological events - from those
that in the past were handed down from generation to generation as a rumor, as a parable, or as a semi-legend: Migdal
Babylon, the burning of the great library of Alexandria. Nowadays we see all
This is for the details and with eyes wide open.
When one of the news anchors shouted "What we're seeing is not Hollywood,
This is the reality!" - He seemed to have a hard time, like the rest of us, shaking off the storm
of that fake sense of security, which stems from the illusion that the imagination is the riser
about reality; Realia has its own restraints: there are things and looks that are simple
They won't be there.
Even if it is not yet clear, at the time of writing, who is actually responsible - us
In Israel, which is threatened by targeted and daily terrorism - we cannot
To look at yesterday's visions as viewers from afar. Who like us should know,
that in reality everything - but everything - is possible.
And it was enough to hear the sounds of jubilation and joy-laid in certain parts of
The Arab world, voices that are well known to us in the context of bloodshed
Taxi with us - to know how unstoppable malice and madness can be
the human being; How fragile and deceptive the sense of security can be
of civilization as we wanted to know it.
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