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May 07, 2005
Libeskind and the Liberal Stamp of Loserism on the WTC Site
Ugly or not the World Trade Center was no wimpy building complex. It was built to be in your face. One tower would have been a powerful show of corporate machismo. But two of them!!! Now that was a bold move and so New York, so unapologetically American.
The WTC was the most complete expression of the vitality and virility of US capitalism that has ever embodied an architectural structure. If New York City was the center of the world, the World Trade Center was its crotch.
Along comes Libeskind's plan -- a wispy pointy tower, like womens high-heeled shoes, dreadfully painful and a size too small. It could just as well be an oversized hotel in Paris, or a Japanese automaker's headquarters in Singapore. And just like all losers, it is unassuming, soulless, non-threatening and unoriginal -- add a depressing cemetery footprint that will remind everyone of how vulnerable and weak we were and you've got the architectural embodiment of what Democrats on the left and Liberals really think of this nation and the private enterprise which drives our economy and national philosophy.
Now that the Liebskind plan has been ditched, it's time to get real and stop apologizing for being us. I agree with Donald Trump, we need to rebuild the towers exactly the same...and at least one story higher.
Lest we forget. September 11, 2001. I watched the World Trade Center fall from my corner on 14th Street and Second Avenue. My niece was moving into her college dormitory about 300 yards from WTC at the time. My sister was in the air on a transcontinental flight back to Seattle. She had just finished staying with my mother for a couple of weeks to help her get back to "reality" after my father died suddenly in the last week of August.
We would not know whether or not my sister was alive for almost 24 hours, after all the planes that were part of the terrorist attack on this country had been accounted for and she was able to get a phone call through. It would take my sister almost an entire week to get back to Seattle using a hodgepodge of buses and trains to make her way across the panicked country.
I rode my bicycle to work that day. People in a fog. Dazed. That sickening smell of industrial smoke and combustion. Chemical. Horrible. Death. All of downtown seemed to be burning. I traveled uptown to the theater district where I worked. Broadway was solemn. There were no tourists anywhere to be seen. -- they had all become survivors. The shock of mortality trumping all cultural differences and stopping the blatant consumerism of "Times Square in its tracks.
I went to work. I was 20 minutes late. A co-worker was already there. She was freaked yelling, "We are all gonna die!!!! We're under attack!!!" I don't know why I didn't panic.. My first feeling that I could connect to was anger, I hated the people who did this whoever they were. My next feeling was pride that I was an American. I began to answer calls at my work, "Hi this is O_____D Entertainment, in Manhattan, New York City, and we are open for business. We will not be shut down!" The husband of the best friend of the VP at my company died at the WTC that day. They had children. They had family. They were not alone. The attack on this country touched all of us.
I went home that night and showed my ID to the National Guard to get to my apartment. In full combat gear, with loaded M-16's, they had sealed off access to downtown to everyone but residents and emergency personnel.
I couldn't sleep that first night. I went to Union Square. There were already thousands of "missing" flyers on poles and trees, hoping against hope that their loved ones were still alive.
There were also hundreds of hateful, anti-American voices already rising up and yelling loudly, "The US did this" It is America’s fault.", "We deserved it", "Bush did it", "Israel did it." "Blame Capitalism, not Islam". The people saying this did not seem to be extremists who loathed this country...they were mostly students or young people in their 20's. The so-called MTV generation. It was disgusting. It reeked of ignorance, selfishness and ingratitude.
A short time later, the major media would pick-up the drumbeat of "blame America first" as "American" reporters who never had a problem wearing red AIDS ribbons took the American Flag off their lapels to show that they were "for the world" not "America"
Then the Democrats climbed aboard, Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Moveon.org All calling the President a "Liar" and a "Nazi" and blaming America’s military, corporations and support of Israel for bringing the world's hatred upon us.
It is now 2005, and Iraq and Afghanistan have Democracy. Saddam is in Jail. Bush and Blair have been reelected. We have not been attacked again. Bin-Laden and Al-Quada have been rendered impotent and incapable of offering anything more then the occasional videotape urging followers to "kill" or "kidnap" someone and cut their heads off.
There are still two holes in the ground downtown that need to be filled.
If the past four years of US successes has shown anything, it is that America is still the vital and virile leader who has earned and deserves the right to be called the beacon of hope and freedom for the oppressed of the world. "Bring us your poor and huddled masses." And bring us back our "World Trade Center" Both towers. Bigger, better, stronger then before....just like we are.
Chris Ward can be reached at lokisfur@aol.com
Posted by Lokisfur at May 7, 2005 01:38 PM
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