They Hate Our Freedoms

There is no such thing as a lie as perfect as the truth. That is why it is necessary to construct an alternate reality in which to house it.

Let's start with 9/11.

We were told that 9/11 happened because "they hated our freedoms."
People who up to then knew they lived in an imperfect society where even their votes didn't count, where lobbyists bought Congress and corporations bought elections, whose 14 percent of the population had disproportionately high representation in prison and on death row, whose work force had been removed from jobs by the tsunami of globalization, whose illiteracy rate was one of the highest in the industrial world, whose country was the stingiest donor in the industrial world, whose 40 million uninsured lived in fear of getting sick, all these various people were suddenly collectively made aware that they were the object of envy for something they hadn't known they had—a really spiffy country.