State of mind

The world seems like a different place. An already weakened economy plunging further into recession; the US and Britain at war against terrorism; massive layoffs; airlines losing billions of dollars a day; people buying gas masks and chemical suits; and the Manhattan skyline devoid of a pair of major landmarks. Yet most of this sense of change is but a side effect of our rattled collective consciousness. What happened on September 11 did not so much change the world as raise our awareness