I’m sure there are any number of days one could say this, but I would hazard this one will be hard to beat: today, Herbert Muschamp opines to the obvious effect that he finds critical thinking has no place in his job. The Times, with a strange neurotic glee, has asked its critics for programming ideas for the WTC site, as the LMDC drags it heels over the final winnowing of candidates for cultural development at the site.
Almost off-handedly, Muschamp announces he’s tired of thinking about it, given the dearth of good ideas, but instead of the rational conclusion of simply giving everyone more time to think, insteads admits he finds the ‘cop-out’ position of rebuilding the towers as they were is now the best solution:
Certainly, I’m prepared to defend reconstruction as a cultural act. It would be an offering to Mnemosyne, mother of the muses, from whom all culture flows.
There’s some classic Muschamp: a (very) little Greek erudition, the threat of real critical thinking that goes unacted on, and call it a day. The rebuilding folks, of whom there are a couple, having been gaining traction recently, including small mention in Time Out this week. In true Muschampian style (hey, if it’s good enough for the Times it certainly passes muster round these parts), I am not going to detail why this is such a phenomenally bad idea. I don’t even think it raises itself to the level of idea, but that sort of dismissive logic has bedeviled liberals in all sorts of areas for decades (you know the process; you think, do I have actually explain why racism is bad again?), and so I’m a little guilty of perpetuating poor tactics. All I’ll say is that if he thinks it’s such a good idea, maybe he should be symbolic Tenant One. It has a nice roundness to the gesture, and I’m sure that Silverstein will give him a discount for being a team player.
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Muschamp phones it in.
I’m sure there are any number of days one could say this, but I would hazard this one will be hard to beat: today, Herbert Muschamp opines to the obvious effect that he finds critical thinking has no place in his job. The Times, with a strange neurotic glee, has asked its critics for programming ideas for the WTC site, as the LMDC drags it heels over the final winnowing of candidates for cultural development at the site.
Almost off-handedly, Muschamp announces he’s tired of thinking about it, given the dearth of good ideas, but instead of the rational conclusion of simply giving everyone more time to think, insteads admits he finds the ‘cop-out’ position of rebuilding the towers as they were is now the best solution:
There’s some classic Muschamp: a (very) little Greek erudition, the threat of real critical thinking that goes unacted on, and call it a day. The rebuilding folks, of whom there are a couple, having been gaining traction recently, including small mention in Time Out this week. In true Muschampian style (hey, if it’s good enough for the Times it certainly passes muster round these parts), I am not going to detail why this is such a phenomenally bad idea. I don’t even think it raises itself to the level of idea, but that sort of dismissive logic has bedeviled liberals in all sorts of areas for decades (you know the process; you think, do I have actually explain why racism is bad again?), and so I’m a little guilty of perpetuating poor tactics. All I’ll say is that if he thinks it’s such a good idea, maybe he should be symbolic Tenant One. It has a nice roundness to the gesture, and I’m sure that Silverstein will give him a discount for being a team player.