Tania Head was elected president of the World Trade Center Survivors Network. She had claimed that she worked on the 78th floor of the South Tower, which had been struck by the second plane, and that she was the sole survivor, showing an injury on her arm. Her fiancé died in the North Tower.
Starting in 2007, facts began to emerge that trumped that “narrative.” On September 11, 2001, she was in Barcelona, not in New York. A documentary now playing in theaters doesn’t just explain the facts and why she constructed a “narrative” so at odds with them, but also reflects on why so many audiences believed her. It is very important to understand why “serious” journalists and media outlets chose to believe and spread this “narrative” as a fact. It is also very important to analyze who were the people who dared to report the facts that contradicted it, and who, despite knowing them, were unwilling or afraid to report them.
There are many people who are so addicted to certain “narratives” that they not only refuse to seek out or ask for evidence of the facts, but also angrily reject any evidence that undermines the “narrative” they like to believe. If evidence and facts emerge that contradict it, they deny reality or twist it until even those same facts are seen as confirmation of their opposing “narrative”.
Narrative is an extraordinary creation of humanity that has given us the finest aesthetic, literary, and musical works. Truth, evidence, and facts are also extraordinary creations of humanity, indispensable in fields such as science and justice. Attempts to use narratives to conceal or refute facts constitute a grave assault on justice, science, and aesthetics.
Fortunately, facts trump “narratives.” Science and justice seek the truth, which depends on the facts and the evidence that supports them.
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