9/11 and Magical Thinking I suggest this descent started in the early nineties. It lurks in dogmas like Hegelianism (counterposed to Marxist Dialiectics) and Intelligent Design, for example, but had been kept at bay by a relatively rational curriculum. 9/11 can be taken as one pivotal moment when one society had an opportunity to grow. Instead, psychologically first and then societally it imploded. Many of the problems the world is facing today are as a result of this. The following article, in part, explains : [while internaional in scope it has a us-centric slant, but on the whole correct