The oldest millennials had been just getting into adulthood — finishing higher college, coming into higher education, leaving dwelling for the to start with time — on September 11, 2001, when terrorist attacks in New York Town and Washington, D.C., precipitated 18 several years (and counting) of unconscionable war, and a horrific new fact suffused with persistent, ambient disaster. In the rapid aftermath of the attacks, one information — no matter if sent by President George W. Bush or New York City’s new mayor, Michael Bloomberg, or Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour (no, seriously) — persisted: The best way to support out on your own, your local community, and your place, is by buying stuff.