In a bit of a mood
Aug. 13th, 2002 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mangosteenObservation: "People who crank-call me at 3:45am" are near the top of my personal list of "people against the wall when the revolution comes".
Rant: Not too much farther down the list are people who think that the 16 acres of the World Trade Center site should be considered "sacred space", and be used for nothing besides a park and a memorial.
I feel sorry for the victims of 9/11, as much as any New Yorker (expat or otherwise) who knew people connected to it. I broke down crying like many others when I visited the site. Something was Taken Away, and it Ain't Coming Back.
However, I am of the firm belief that building absolutely nothing on the site, and depriving a commerce-based lifeform of the regrowth of one of its major organs is short-sighted, and downright moronic.
I feel sorry enough to grieve and remember.
I don't feel sorry enough to have that take priority over Manhattan as a whole moving on with its collective life.
Okay. Rant over. Time to get a little more sleep.
Rant: Not too much farther down the list are people who think that the 16 acres of the World Trade Center site should be considered "sacred space", and be used for nothing besides a park and a memorial.
I feel sorry for the victims of 9/11, as much as any New Yorker (expat or otherwise) who knew people connected to it. I broke down crying like many others when I visited the site. Something was Taken Away, and it Ain't Coming Back.
However, I am of the firm belief that building absolutely nothing on the site, and depriving a commerce-based lifeform of the regrowth of one of its major organs is short-sighted, and downright moronic.
I feel sorry enough to grieve and remember.
I don't feel sorry enough to have that take priority over Manhattan as a whole moving on with its collective life.
Okay. Rant over. Time to get a little more sleep.
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Date: 2002-08-13 08:24 am (UTC)Although the Persians lost the 'Persian War' with Ancient Greece, they destroyed Athens, including its temples on the Acropolis. The Athenians, when they returned, swore to keep the Acropolis a pile of rubble forever, as witness to the horrible impiety of the Persians.
Then they went around day by day, looking at a big heap of rocks on their Acropolis. They gave up on that plan pretty soon, as we can still see today.
I think a similar impulse motivates the people who want a 'sacred space' with little in it where the Towers were, and I think rebuilding and healing and moving on will win out here too. (At least I hope so.)