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Tower Doesn't Get Nicknamed (Freedom Tower)
Henroid
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http://www.nypress.com/blog-3768-freedom-tower-loses-its-freedom-ness.html
If this is a repeat thread, my bad.
So, I'm a little dumbfounded at this. It came to my attention because my mother is up in arms about it (failing to recognize the Port Authority are those naming it, she used it as another anti-Obama rant). So, this new building that they're setting up at Ground Zero was nick-named Freedom Tower, which of course was a part of the "Freedom is awesome!" thing the last administration had. Yeah, it is awesome. We know it.
Now people, especially the New York press, are mad at the name One World Trade Tower. I could see there being outrage for a name change to something like, Bob's Tower. But really, "One World" I think is being misread by Pataki here. One World as in, y'know, peace and people being united? Or maybe I'm reading it wrong. Even then, honoring the towers and those who died there works with the Port Authority's name, maybe even better than "Freedom Tower." No matter what, I still see symbolism in place.
Is this really something worth getting upset about? Are there implications behind each name I'm missing?
Daily Intel is reporting that the marketers selling space for the "Freedom Tower," currently under construction at Ground Zero, have decided to change the building's name to "One World Trade Center". While it seems that many people are in favor of not naming the tower something so politically charged and“Bush-yâ€, former Governor Pataki, who came up with the “patriotic†name, is not pleased.
"In design and name, it is symbolic of our commitment to rise above the attacks of Sept. 11. Where 1 and 2 World Trade Center once stood, there will be a memorial with two voids to honor the heroes we lost — and, in my view, those addresses should never be used again." Maybe we can honor those who passed on 9/11 with something more than a name, Something, dare I say, more significant?!
If this is a repeat thread, my bad.
So, I'm a little dumbfounded at this. It came to my attention because my mother is up in arms about it (failing to recognize the Port Authority are those naming it, she used it as another anti-Obama rant). So, this new building that they're setting up at Ground Zero was nick-named Freedom Tower, which of course was a part of the "Freedom is awesome!" thing the last administration had. Yeah, it is awesome. We know it.
Now people, especially the New York press, are mad at the name One World Trade Tower. I could see there being outrage for a name change to something like, Bob's Tower. But really, "One World" I think is being misread by Pataki here. One World as in, y'know, peace and people being united? Or maybe I'm reading it wrong. Even then, honoring the towers and those who died there works with the Port Authority's name, maybe even better than "Freedom Tower." No matter what, I still see symbolism in place.
Is this really something worth getting upset about? Are there implications behind each name I'm missing?
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I think that a return to the original naming convention is good. I think that the rest of the world will see this as coming back down to Earth, and not some sort of capitulation.
The topic?
"What does America mean to you?"
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
how about 11 WTC?
Are they rebuilding both towers or just this one?
Because if the former, then what were those who were calling it "Freedom Tower" going to name the second?
So how about a normal name? New York Tower? Manhattan Tower? Richy Tower? It's not like we're so low on tower names that our only two options are the name of towers where thousands of people died or a stupid politically-charged name.
Or that. Naming it 3 is somewhat evocative of the twin towers, so don't know if that would be considered a good thing or not.
Also, they should bring the old globe back in from Battery Park as it is the best memorial of the attacks conceivable.
Only one, and they aren't rebuilding anything it's a brand new design because the original one was actually pretty shitty. Though its heresy to admit that now.
1/3/11/0 WTC is a normal name. It's what every building in the complex actually is named and so this would be a continuation of that convention.
Also, expect the whole "One World Trade Tower" thing to come up in obnoxious conspiracy theories and "Zeitgeist"-esque videos for years to come.
That's what I thought too, this is one more thing to pile onto the NWO conspiracy theories
"ONE WORLD TRADE ?????"
Does that mean one world currency?!?
THE AMERO!!?!??!!?!?
I don't think that structures which house people, or businesses, or anything like that are entitled to lofty abstracts in the same way that a bell is. It doesn't come across as corny to me because 'Freedom Tower' is corny, it's because 'Freedom Tower' is probably still going to have a bunch of cubicles on at least a few floors and, seriously, c'mon. Are we going to call them Freedom Cubicles? Freedom Businesses, with Freedom Entrepreneurs?
Minas Morgul, imo.
In any case it doesn't really matter, since the name's apparently going to be changed. The only thing I thought was kind of dumb about it was that I remember a few years ago they were trying to make it exactly 1776 feet tall.
In which trade is conducted.
Trade that involves the world.
There are many of these towers.
The first is called "one."
That certain people seem to find this system difficult is strangely simultaneously disappointing and unsurprising.
Question: if the blithering idiots finding this offensive were shopping for a home, say on President Drive, would they skip 44 President Drive because omgbama!?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
1 World Trade Center Plaza doesn't seem any more ominous than 30 Rockefeller Plaza. 30 Rockefellers controlling the world would actually be more frightening.
Cirith Ungol!
how many years behind schedule is it anyway?
And they have a plan...
If there is one thing I can get behind, it is a giant "fuck you" to a nonexistent God.
That's a Ferris Wheel.
FIXT!
Or... OR... how about:
The Duff Beer Krusty Burger Buzz Cola Costington's Department Store Kwik-E-Mart Stupid Flanders Park