The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the “Innocence of Becoming”: Nietzsche, 9/11, and the “Falling Man”

The Global Catastrophic Impact of 9/11 Attack: Analyzing the Mental Condition in the Postmodern Novels and Media in the Post-Apocalyptic Context

“…A Time Magazine retrospective published in 2016 stated "Falling Man's identity is still unknown, but he is believed to have been an employee at the Windows on the World restaurant, which sat atop the north tower. The true power of Falling Man, however, is less about who its subject was and more about what he became: a makeshift Unknown Soldier in an often unknown and uncertain war, suspended forever in history" According to Joanne Faulkner's (2008) argument, instead of the "mere objectification of their death," some people are outraged by the topic of the photos of jumpers themselves (p.71). Faulkner emphasises how difficult it is to determine whether to leap, echoing the opinion expressed by Junod in his 2003 Esquire article: "People who look at the pictures have to decide whether they would have done the same thing and I think that is what makes people so uncomfortable."…”