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The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed

Rebecca Solnit · 11 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Hollywood and government plans often incorrectly assume that people panic or act selfishly during crises.

    Their wordsHollywood movies and too many government pandemic plans still presume that most of us are cowards or brutes, that we panic, trample each other, rampage, or freeze helplessly in moments of crisis and chaos.

  2. Our reading

    Panic is a rare phenomenon in disasters.

    Their wordsCareful research has led disaster sociologists to the conclude that panic is a vanishingly rare phenomenon in disasters, part of an elaborate mythology of our weakness.

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