The United States of Emergency :: September 11 Terrorism Essays

The United States of Emergency   We are living in an ongoing crisis, a long-term state of emergency. We are at fight all over the world (U.S. government officials tell us that foot operates in or from 60 countries). We have partial martial righteousness within our country, close obviously in airports. Escalation has taken over. Killing has escalated. charge has escalated.   This gives diversity consciousness a new resonance, a new tail end line. It gives mountain a renewed purpose. Diversity is the key to survival. So the logical system is clear diversity must be escalated.   They dont think like we do, tell a U.S. terrorism expert. I could never cerebrate myself diving a plane into a building and killing people. The response of about people shows their cognitive/imaginative threshold. Some people were conceptually blocked. I cant imagine how they could do that, said many people after Sept. 11.   When we define some people as deviant, we cant approach t hem in our usual way, it puts them beyond our reach, or else we would have to admit that their deviance is within our repertoire as well. The more than different from our norm someone is, the more we are challenged to bridge the distance. When we stretch forth with great overlap and similarity, we dont practice making contact with the farther reaches of world nature (the title of a book by Abraham Maslow), our own or someone elses.   We talked about outsiders and outcasts in connection with the School shootings of the past some years. When I was teaching Lord of the Flies to a high enlighten English class, students were quick to dismiss a character as nuts. They reliable only a narrow band of normal. We write off, avoid, demonize, pathologize, those who seem different. We equalise our mental/emotional/political environment. We reinforce our norms and convince ourselves we are the most normal AND the most special people in existence.   Feminists are terrorists to a m ale-dominant world order. Someone who is considered deviant is by definition not hearty in the usual mode and is seen as a threat to ones stability and security. A physician has to enter the consciousness and subjectivity of the patient or hes not a good physician, says Dr. Oliver Sacks. Dr. Jerrold Post, George Washington University psychiatrist, has been giving interviews in which he says the terrorists are not psychotic.