Did anyone but me not care when 9/11 happened?

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I don't remember when I found out about it, I know it was quite some time after it actually happend though, well into the school year. It didn't faze me, as far as I was concerned it was just another news report about a horrible event in some far away land.

I still don't actually care, but since then I've learned to at least imagine what it might feel like to lose a loved one. The closest I've ever gotten to that was waking up and finding my dog had died in my bed.

...... Dude, really.... all those people who died.... children lost their parents, parents lost their children, friends lost friends, and you just don't care? I can't even be outraged, I'm just shocked.

The problem with things today is that people will always jump onto the bandwagon. 9/11 is exactly the right piece of hype that proves my point. You have ordinary US citizens involved, ordinary US citizens that witnessed it on the TV and people all around the world seeing it on the TV. They all do the same thing: shock, cry, anger, guilt. However, its all false. Its just their way of saying "I was there" or " This has deeply affected me, so now I am part of it. I don't care what anyone else says". Its called the Bandwagon Effect and it makes me sick. Viewing the footage, I saw loads of examples: people blubbering into the TV camera's, ordinary beat cops shouting and ordering people to make themselves look important and amateur camcorder scavengers adding their own commentaries: "Oh my God. I can't believe it. Oh the humanity, oh my God, God, God, God". Yeah pal, we get the message. Calm the Hell down. In actuality, 9/11 gave the bored US peasants something to get their excitement going. Now, its been over 7 years since 9/11. The bored US peasants are waiting for another 9/11 to happen. Then they can break out the camcorders and the champagne and celebrate another "cool day".

The same is happening with the UK financial crisis. True, people are affected, but that doesn't mean you have to join the race to see who can shout louder about it.

I honestly didn't care at all.



Might have had something to do with the fact that I was around seven at the time, had no relation to the US and was at that point very, very deep in my ADHD, so to speak.
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Edit: Might be wise to add that I, many years later, was quite deeply moved when I first saw recordings from the events.

When you poke the hornets nest don't come crying to me when you get bitten , seriously i would have thought Americans would reflect and perhaps have learnt a lesson , seems not you don't even seem to know the difference between "justice" and revenge.

I would much rather save an animal than a human , one of the reasons I don't eat them or their secretions.

Do Americans cry for the Iraqis?