You're A Yogi; Can't You Be Flexible?
" [Jeffrey] Abramson wants to build a 12-story monument dedicated to peace and freedom -- a "Tower of Invincibility," as he calls it -- smack in the middle of Washington.In Lafayette Square, perhaps, across the street from the country's reigning symbol of supposed invincibility, the White House. Another ideal location, Abramson said at a news conference yesterday, would be the Mall, home to memorials for World War II veterans and Abraham Lincoln. Of course, the Mall is already home to another tower, a little something known as the Washington Monument.
I have two questions for Abramson:
- "The list of projects that the Tower Cos., his family's real estate firm, have built include White Flint Mall..." Why not build the tower of transcendentalism at the White Flint Mall? Because that would be very, very American. Even better yet, tear down the White Flint Mall and then build the tower.
- Why does peace have to be such an eyesore?
posted by The Goo at 8:59 AM
3 Comments:
If the Post's first paragraph is anything to go by, I'm not the only person to think that the building looks anatomically correct.
Yeah, for as much as I think that the Wash Mon.-as-phallus argument is waaaay ovrethinking it, there's really no getting around this one.
Why do they even need the giant phallic tower? Can't you practice transcendental meditation anywhere? So why shouldn't the monument to peace and freedom be something like a park or garden with pretty trees and flowers. It's better for the environment and much less of an eyesore.
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