You can tell how purposefully oblivious a pundit is when they dismiss the most widespread and sustained riots in the US in at least 50 years as nothing more than a few viral videos
Also -- the framing of this savvy-sounding observation is ridiculous. What percentage of the US population was directly impacted by 9/11?
At any given time most people in a country of 330 million are going to be able to "go about their boring lives" without meaningful interruption but it doesn't mean they aren't influenced by events occurring elsewhere in society
