What a nightmare: "Construction companies are putting together Dream City in Iraq"
As reported by James Hider, this is a "slide of Western suburbia", with its luxury homes and a shopping mall doing the trick!
I wonder whether anyone would consider invasion, assassinations and abuse necessary stages to achieving creativity, as this item has been entitled: "Iraq now
open for visionary architecture" - I hope this is not the case. Although, it is interesting that a designer would equate luxury houses and shopping malls with the word “visionary†- I thought we would know better by now.
So, new luxury dwellings will have to make up for the potable water that is not yet restored, for the sewer ruined by the invaders, for the shattered education and health systems. How will these visions ever ease the pain of those who have lost (and still loosing) their children, families, friends and colleagues? (see: Academics targeted as murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges
) – this is not a dream, this is a imposed nightmare.
I call this obscenity, illustrative of the immorality that governs us.
In the early weeks of his occupation proconsulship, Paul Bremer fired all senior academics who were members of the Baath party. "They went home and tried to leave the country," another Baghdad arts professor complained. "But those who stayed are now mostly too frightened to return because they have been named - and they fear for their lives." Academics targeted as murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges
"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then you have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."
Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting in Abe Hayeem's new book "Destruction as cultural cleansing"
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As reported by James Hider, this is a "slide of Western suburbia", with its luxury homes and a shopping mall doing the trick!
I wonder whether anyone would consider invasion, assassinations and abuse necessary stages to achieving creativity, as this item has been entitled: "Iraq now open for visionary architecture" - I hope this is not the case. Although, it is interesting that a designer would equate luxury houses and shopping malls with the word “visionary†- I thought we would know better by now.
So, new luxury dwellings will have to make up for the potable water that is not yet restored, for the sewer ruined by the invaders, for the shattered education and health systems. How will these visions ever ease the pain of those who have lost (and still loosing) their children, families, friends and colleagues? (see: Academics targeted as murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges ) – this is not a dream, this is a imposed nightmare.
I call this obscenity, illustrative of the immorality that governs us.
In the early weeks of his occupation proconsulship, Paul Bremer fired all senior academics who were members of the Baath party. "They went home and tried to leave the country," another Baghdad arts professor complained. "But those who stayed are now mostly too frightened to return because they have been named - and they fear for their lives." Academics targeted as murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges
"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then you have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."
Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting in Abe Hayeem's new book "Destruction as cultural cleansing"
Don't worry! That title was intended as a tragic comment on the fact that this development is labeled "dream city."
Thanks Damon, that's a relief. The photograph ITP Business used is very telling too.
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