The vulger, grandiose, pretentious, and stupid
revised "Freedom Tower" proposed for the former
World Trade Center site represents the antithesis of freedom. Instead
of a ground floor that offers connection to the pedestrian life
of the street, what you get is a gigantic blank-walled crypto-military
fortification -- two hundred feet of steel and concrete bombproof
bombast -- while the priapic tower above holds office workers hostage
in the world's number one target for shoulder-launched missiles
and other weapons of opportunity. What kind of sadist corporate
CEO would ask his-or-her employees to work in the 49th floor of
this monstrosity? What sort of desperate, cringing, soulless employee
would consent to work there? What makes any of the idiots associated
with this project, from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Governor Pataki
to David Childs, the architect from Skidmore Owings and Merrill,
to the sycophants at the New York Times arts desk, think
that we will even be able to run mega-structures like this one in
an imminent future of worldwide energy shortages? The project should
sink from the sheer weight of stupidity that has been heaped into
it. It lacks the dignity of even a common bowling trophy. It's a
disgrace to the city of New York and to the word freedom.
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