ABSTRACT
In the days and weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, it quickly became a cliché to say that American society would be undergoing deep and significant changes-that, as with the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941, how we lived our lives would be altered for a long period. However, as Bill Maher points out in When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism, we accommodated that day’s events within our lives in a remarkably short time [1]. True, we are more conscious today of our security, and we have learned to accept more than cursory checks at airports and other travel terminals. However, in many other ways, particularly in how we consume, our experience may feel much as it did before September 11.
