Meaning And Nothingness At Ground Zero

4 October 2002 - 6:00am

Is the question of what to do with Ground Zero in New York actually an issue of materialism versus spirituality?

"A debate about the site's future held last weekend at the New York Historical Society developed exactly along that divide. Architect Daniel Libeskind made the case for building something on the World Trade Center site. A pair of authors, Sherwin B. Nuland (who is also a doctor) and Leon Wieseltier, argued for, respectively, a meditative garden and nothing at all; both writers found the idea of building anything on the site to be repellent."

Source: Reason Online, October 3, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.