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In a bit of a mood
Aug. 13th, 2002 08:02 amObservation: "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.
