The article reflects on the legacy of the September 11, 2001 attacks, 25 years on, noting that the attacks killed 2,977 people but their consequences reached billions. It states that the aftermath changed how people travel, how governments conduct surveillance, how borders operate, how intelligence agencies share information, how Muslims are perceived, how nations define threats, and how much privacy citizens are willing to surrender for security. It observes that anniversary coverage remembers the victims and examines the wars that followed, but argues there is another story worth telling about the ordinary citizen who gradually entered a world where security became a permanent condition of everyday life.
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