prior to 9/11?
I was watching Bill Clinton get interviewed by Roger Ebert in 2000
>https://youtu.be/1_ytFVWVaTs?si=TbM_upOmsOByXidj
And they have an entire segment about how young American men at the time like the movie Fight Club because they have no Vietnam to speak of and are sort of distanced from real violence. You just don't get the sense at all that anyone was anticipating 9/11 or any type of war on the horizon.

Did people think that history had been "solved" by the late 90s?