Living A New Normal

摘要

If a nation really did have a collective psyche, right about now America's friends might suggest that it could possibly be time to, you know, maybe see somebody about this? Just think of the stress points. The largest terrorist attack ever, the most deaths by violence in a single day on your soil, the notion of your moated invulnerability exposed as an illusion, the prospect of more attacks to come. The late-dawning certainty that some people in the world hate you enough to die themselves if that's what it takes to kill you. Security and surveillance heightened, free speech strongly discouraged. A president's presssecretary warning that Americans "have to watch what they say."