Heroes and Anti-Heroes

FATE – REAL OR IMAGINED “Within hours of the terror attacks, they heard comparisons to that other deadly sneak attack, Pearl Harbor. The president grimly informed the nation we were at war. The nation had not seen a bloodier day on American soil, the commentators said, since the Civil War.” Were the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, fate? To invoke the concept of fate or to have a fatalistic vision …

…we can control our own fate. We have tried to control the ecological balance, bacterial infections, weather, and because in some cases we have succeeded, we believe we are in control of our own fate or lives. It takes severe natural disasters or new outbreaks of lethal epidemics or the terror of the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to really begin to question ourselves, “Are we really in control of our own fate?”