Yaay, you guys!
Happy 9/11th anniversary, you guys!
As Mr. Alterhausen aptly put it when we went to visit NYC this past May, it really appears to be a tourist scam when you look at the site now, some seven years later. It’s literally just a gaggle of construction workers wandering to and fro, the requisite crane, a few planks of steel, and lots of dirt. Not a hint of an edifice in sight.
According to the city, there are issues with a proposed subway underneath the land, the cost is higher than initially estimated, there are security issues, and it won’t be built in the ten years since the anniversary as initially proposed.
Why build anything there at all? Does NYC really need another building? Who would feel comfortable working in a building that served as an unmarked gravesite for such a recent tragedy in history? Did they steamroll over the concentration camps, cement ‘em up, and build parking lots over them when the war was over?
Build a memorial there. Let the people who’ve lost someone have their peace. Honor the memory of those who were lost. Try to think about why it happened instead of rising out of the ashes like some capitalist phoenix with a blatant erection of a skyscraper like we’re flipping off the Taliban chanting, “Nyah, nyah, nyah nyaaah, nyaaaah!”
Grow the fuck up, America.
