Success Quote by Allen Klein

Klein frames 9/11 less as an event than as an impact crater: “sudden,” “enormous,” “horrendous” stacks adjectives the way a crisis memo stacks bullet points, building a sense of scale that the mind can’t metabolize. The sentence is designed to do two things at once. It honors the human loss (“lives lost”) while also insisting that the proper unit of measurement is systemic (“global consequences”). That pivot matters: it quietly authorizes the idea that grief is not only personal or national but infrastructural, something that rearranges markets, policy, media, and everyday behavior.

The phrase “immediate and prolonged shock” borrows from trauma language, but it also reads like a diagnosis of a whole civilization’s attention span. Klein, a businessman, isn’t speaking like a poet or a theologian; he’s describing the psychological equivalent of a supply-chain rupture. “Shock” becomes a bridge term between emotion and action: if society is stunned, then extraordinary measures feel less like choices and more like reflexes. The subtext is that what followed - militarized security, wars, the reorganization of public space and private life - can be understood as the aftereffects of a body hit too hard, too fast.

Context sharpens the intent. Post-9/11 commentary often split between sanctifying the dead and analyzing the geopolitical fallout; Klein tries to fuse them, making the moral claim that the scale of consequence is part of the tragedy itself. It’s a sentence built to justify why “normal” couldn’t simply resume, and why the world’s response would be measured not in days, but in decades.