The airing of the series coincided with the September 11 attacks , and in at least one case , the events have been analyzed within the context of the series . Margaret Schwartz of PopMatters writes , " As NPR and other … media began to debate the September 11 images , I began to see just how important it was to consider how we as a culture define and experience ' reality ' … Some argue that the shocking video footage … is a necessary experience of the catastrophe — even a condition of it . " She points out the metafictional story of '' Tamers '' where " bits of forgotten computer data have fused to become a separate world inhabited by live creatures " . In acknowledging the line drawn between good and evil in the series , Schwartz writes , " The evil here consists in refusing to see that Digimon are ' real ' , real creatures , and that destroying any one of them is in fact murder . " Through the existence of intangible communication networks as a " product of human ingenuity " , she concludes that " those of us in the ' real ' world have become so good at playing creator , at making ' things ' appear much like ' real ' creatures , that we tend to confuse the two . "
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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