I was too young to really understand what happened on 9/11 until much later. I don’t remember a world pre 9/11 either. But occasionally throughout school I would read or see something about what life was like back then, and think that something was up.

Later in university I found out that hard work and doing my best wasn’t worth fuck all. A persons skin colour could really help them along, even the biggest fuckup would be passed along if they had the right skin.

Over the past few years, seeing the quality of who we elect to be politicians has really made me think too. A lot of, if no most of, our politicians now are hacks that couldn’t make it in a normal career and are only running to be elected as it’s the best possible career they can obtain. Our politicians are no longer business leaders, scientific experts, or even regular people that started with nothing and built a life from scratch. All we get are hacks that have been opportunistic leaches for their entire careers.

And of course the final nail in the coffin has been the past year of covid horseshit.