[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> FW: I am a person who loves my city

["Michael Benson" <michael.benson@pristop.si>]

One Morgan J. Meis writes, of the WTC:

>Those towers were perhaps the most
>potent symbols of that tangled web that makes up American power. They were
>physically imposing, almost taking on a military bearing at times. They
>were, in a sense, the nearest modern equivalent to the medieval towers of
>old: fortified, arrogant, hostile.

Here we have a clear illustration of the fact that when you go far enough
left, you meet the far right. Our faulty scheme for illustrating ideological
difference isn't two dimensional, it comes full circle. But "the center
cannot hold." Gerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were widely quoted as agreeing
that NY City, with its offensively eclectic mix of gays, lesbians,
abortionists, Jews, Moslems, athiests, money-changers, etc., had simply been
asking for it: that godless rabble deserved the attacks of the 11th. Now we
have the flip-side, which is not a flip side, because it's exactly the same
side: the World Trade Center, Meis says, was "fortified, arrogant, hostile."
It "almost" took on "a military bearing at times." Thus the attacks on it
were justified.

What swill.

>But what of old New York? What of my precious little contradiction that is
a
>world onto itself. What of the jewel that is solace to those of those who
>need protection from within the belly of the beast. Are you too wounded my
>darling?

Whew.

MB


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