American Taliban

pirate wires #50 // from the fall of the towers to the fall of kabul, mimetic theory, caliphate chad has entered the chat, sex work is canceled, and the rise of american authority

The long fall down. At 16, glued to the television with the rest of world, I watched in horror as the Twin Towers burned and buckled, and finally collapsed. On every station there was screaming, and also on the radio, where eventually clips of people crying and narrating the unimaginable catastrophe would be cut into a hit Jewel song and played on a loo…