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Maybe I'm not a "visual learner" but I tend to find the opposite is the case.
My imagination serves me reasonably well, but show me footage and I start thinking Hollywood.
It all looks a bit "Day After Tomorrow" when you see it on TV, just like 9/11 looked a bit "Independence Day". The fact that it was real didn't make it any more realistic, if you know what I mean.
Bizarrely the one bit of footage that really struck me during the 9/11 coverage was a hand-held cam by someone (presumably a journo) heading straight to the scene shortly after the planes had struck. The crowds were already streaming away (towards the camera). You could almost feel the sense "hey, aren't I cool as f**k chasing after this huge story". Then the first tower collapsed and the guy (wholly understandably) turned around and run away as fast as he could. It was about the only thing I saw that had any sense of humanity to it - someone actually reacting to what was going on around him.
Planes flying into buildings looked more like a computer game.
emilystrange wrote:if those moving pictures gave me a far greater insight into the physical scale of destruction, then how can it be a fatuous comment?
last time i checked the dictionary was still defining fatuous as "not carefully thought about" which is exactly how your initial comment came across. it still does.
terribly sorry if my being upset disrupted my flow of language.