"Teenagers have surveyed the digital artifacts left in the wake of their parents’ trauma and decided they were taking up too much cultural space. So they’re flattening them into jokes and throwing them away. A conspiracy theory shrinks into a slogan and then a punch line and then a non sequitur until it’s totally played out. What once constituted controversy will soon be history. Lately, Autry has noticed that the 9/11 jokes aren’t as popular among her peers as they were a few months back. They’re starting to recede into the irrelevant parts of the Internet where adults marvel at teen trends that have already passed. She’s seen them on Facebook."
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2015/07/teenagers_and_9_11_trutherism_jokes_how_these_memes_became_a_phenomenon.html
Wasn't a great article in general, but it's an interesting premise. There is such a thing about the huge way that 9/11 has shaped our society and how it makes less sense the farther you are from it. I wonder if we did this about the Cold War.
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