Bin Laden's curse, as he crashed two planes into the World Tarde Center, was to force us into a position once again, after possibly only a decade of our maturity having come to full fruition, of having to assert ourselves. Certainty is now the main feature of Western psychology, as a product of our insecurity, robbing us of the most powerful attitude so far known to mankind. More concretely, of being able to witness the world reveal itself. We are, like all other and previously far inferior cultures, able now only to see what we ourselves can assert. Because we assert it, and it is what is in our view.
It is a sad development.