More Ground Zero Nonsense

So, a committee made up of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), the Port Authority, the governor and the mayor have chosen a plan for what will be built on the site of the former World Trade Center. Yippee. I sure feel sad for Larry Silverstein, who held the lease on the World Trade Center. He gets no say. He just signed that 99 year lease right before the attack, too. How depressing.

This whole process of listening to the public and the victim's families and everyone who has a mouth has been a great big train wreck. This plan is really ugly. It includes a bunch of angular buildings that will clash big time with the aesthetic of Lower Manhattan (a German architect? sheesh), the tallest spire in the world (*cough*phallic symbol*cough*), and a wall exposed in the process of debris removal (for the cult of grief). Pretty gross. There's also a plan to put a bus depot in, and part of it actually touches the oh-so hallowed land in which some people unfamiliar with the concept of physics think their loved ones are still buried. I've got a news flash for them; the ashes of their loved ones got taken out with the rest of the rubble. I'm not happy that anyone lost a family member or friend in the attack, but these people on television act like they are the first people to have ever lost someone, either in an act of war or otherwise. Their insistence that everyone prioritize their personal grief over the common good is completely irrational. At this point, I couldn't care less about your husband, lady. Leaving that much land undeveloped will cripple the economy of Lower Manhattan, and I don't think your inability to get past your husband's death is worth that. While you're thinking about that, check some land records and find out if your house -- which is in the most densely developed are in the US -- is built on land that was once an Indian burial ground or a colonial graveyard. Yeah, that's what I thought.