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A watershed for the west, 9/11 was a wakeup call for Haligonian teacher Steven Edwin Laffoley to reflect on the Zero that Ground Zero signified: an absolute nothing; an absence of meaning; rather the ushering in, as he put it, of the Dark Age of Unreason. For him, the halogen lights on Manhattan site illuminated an emotional void and not the image of good and evil that television drummed out minute by minute. So he embarked on a journey of reflection. In the process, he looked at how he was shaped by American values wrought by birth and upbringing, twinned with Canadian values adopted over 20 years. His journey takes him from the American undemocracy of dissent to the calmness of Canada,… Read more
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