Posted on 01/22/2022 4:07:17 AM PST by JonPreston
Hell on wings. The entire process of flying in America today—from the humiliating TSA search procedures to the constant mechanical delays and nasty customer service—is designed to immiserate the passenger. None of this is an accident.
Air travel has been an exercise in ritual humiliation since the airlines capitulated to terrorists during the golden age of hijacking in the late 1960s. Conditions, however, became truly abominable in the wake of 9/11. Nineteen Muslim immigrant men between the ages of 18 and 35 decided to ram several aircraft into the nation’s commercial heart and the Pentagon, therefore the Transportation Safety Administration needs to pat down grandmothers and use surveillance tools to peer at the naked bodies of ordinary citizens. Of course.
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