Hallmonitor
2010-05-17 23:33:41

#18 “Why that is so, that is the big story, that Lappen missed.”

The big story that no one has missed and everyone ignores and that is and was so inevitable, is how New York City civically, culturally and socially has corrupted since 9/11/01.

The downward spiral is slow miasmically taking place before our eyes, like watching grumpy snide senior lurch into the early stages of organic brain decay then into a full hopeless case of Alzheimer’s.

The 19th and 20th century coattails are fraying down to threads. Thrice electing a mincing billionaire health food harpy, a man who is spooked by the saltiness of our french fries, and those who would dissent against 30 trillion dollar deficits. The mayor who see’s American ruminating as a more likely source of violence than that which has mega mugged it (WTC I & II) ;” and the hits’ just keep on coming”!

New York regrettably will not wake up. It is so insular and above it all. It is corruption layered upon corruption. A terminal case of “Mr De Mille, I’m ready for my closeup.” Slowly the camera comes into focus and you realize the city is just the backdrop to a larger drama that must be played out.

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