I delay things: when necessary, and also when unnecessary

It was less than a year ago that I finally returned to the 9/11 videos, by way of the Internets.  Even as I did it, and let myself cry for the human tragedy in news coverage (which I so systematically deny), I had to wonder how late I was.  How many had held out so long, knowing that at any minute they could replay the collapsing towers. Seven years may be an unthinkably long time in the 21s century, but I think it was about the minimum for me to recover passively from the shock and subsequent disgust with its symbolic exploitation by the US government.

And a passive recovery it had to be, because any active attempt felt like complicity with the ridiculous (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28148) and irredeemably excessive (http://www.politicus.us/wp-content/uploads/abu_ghraib_abuse_hood.jpg) attempts of my entire society to recover actively.  How many people are still waiting? I say wait as long as you want.