The NYT Sunday magazine this week is devoted
to the story of the World Trade Center towers,
(1) their construction and eventual demise, and
(2) a proposal what to replace them with.
Anent #2, The Times got together some of the
most influential architects of the present
age, including Richard Meier, Peter Eisenmann
and Charles Gwalthmey (don't
worry if you don't know these names -- the only
reason to know them is to be[a]ware of them).
And what is the upshot of this CHARRETTE de luxe?
You all know that I try to deploy biting irony
in the infrastructure of my discourse. But I
also try to make irony serve humanism.
Well, the architectural luminaries gathered
together by The Times came up with
a postmodernist hallucination-in-reality
the centerpiece of which are two huge
twisted towers
If anyone wants more cynicism,
I went to the whitehouse website and
Bush's "trifecta" joke is part of the
official record:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/quotes2.html#Q121
What's different between "December 7th" and "911"?
It's that the persons in power today make cynical jokes about
it and the cynical jokes coexist side-by-side with the
maudlin self-righteous sentimentality. "And then
(applause and laughter) -- and then they sank
the Lusitania (laughter)"
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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