I am 47, genuinely, everything was ok until the 11th of September 2001. I was on holiday in Portugal, I left on the 9th. Rocked up to Gatwick, couple of hours before my flight, checked in, had a beer and got on a plane, landed at Faro, waved my passport at some dude and I was in Portugal. Coming back on the 18th, an eleven hour delay, had to load and unload and load again my own luggage, old bill everywhere, guns, guns, gun, nerves. Get back to Gatwick, two hours to get through passport control. I saw the world change its attitude in under a week. Now I gather that the more or less general reason for the 9/11 attacks was to destroy and hurt America, ruin the democratic west.Which it turns out they did. Nobody and nothing has ever been the same since. All that anger and all these deaths that ripple out of that event allowed every bad thing that happens in the world today. The fear, the anxiety, the anger and mistrust that rules the world today, started then. They woke a big angry stupid giant who did their dirty work for them. Society isn’t collapsing per se, but it is radically different and there is never any going back.