Via the Puppy Blender, a video of a “historic” Detroit hotel being demolished, as filmed by a drone.
Sound is really optional on this, it goes from annoying music to annoying drone-motor buzz, although you CAN hear the building go down.
[Park Avenue Hotel Implosion – Detroit, MI – Filmed by DJI Phantom 2 Drone – Demolition ] (Viewer #23,725)
Personal Note: When I was a kid, I thought building demolitions were awesome.
But now, almost 14 years after 9/11, I can’t watch this without a little ball of sickness forming in the pit of my stomach.
I have the same problem watching superhero movies where buildings get destroyed. Avengers was gut-wrenching for me.
Apparently I have scars.
Yeah, weirdness, eh? When I read that last part, I suddenly flashed onto the famous picture of “the badly burned Vietnamese girl” that I saw on television at the supper table one night. Actually, from the front, she didn’t look injured, just naked. She lived too, and I’ve seen a recent picture of her in the last few years.
Maybe I admit too much about my mindset – but that same ball of sickness you feel, Harv, quickly transforms into a shaking rage inside me. A rage at how it took eleven years to construct when it should have been the single-most morale-driven project in US history. It took three years to build the Sears Tower. Two to build the Chrysler building. Two years to build the Gateway Arch – which was much more an accomplishment than a vertical skyscraper. The Hoover Dam was a technological and architectural miracle in its time, and it only took five years. (And never mind America – remember when that tsunami and 9.0 earthquake hit Japan and tore a six foot rift through the Great Kanto Highway? They fixed that ***t in SIX DAYS.)
But rather than focus our talents and our unity on this singular project, we dawdled for eleven years and finally got something up and called it “freedom” with little fanfare. (While New Yorkers whined about what an eyesore it was.)
That fills me with rage. That just screams to me of our society of all these bickering bureaucrats and pandering politicians and self-righteous special interest groups that all have to have their say so that all the TPS reports are correctly completed and filed while the printer jams.
Compound that with the fact that our hamfisted and reactionary approach to dealing with 911 by failing to address the ideological problem that is Islam itself, which subsequently birthed ISIS and to which the liberal left is adamant about refusing to admit is a problem – I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been over a decade of, “What the hell are you people, our supposed ‘leaders’, doing!?” In the meantime, these bloodthirsty savages spread like cancer and we concede a nuclear program to their supporters in order to give Preezy Boyfriend another football to spike.
The WTC falling makes my soul hurt every time I see a building go down. But the Freedom Tower is worse. Every time I look at that thing, all I see is the red-tape ridden bureaucratic nightmare our lives have become; the corrupt and diseased failure that is supposed to be the “elected representatives of the people;” and the reality is that we’re actually probably a lot worse off than we were in 2001 with regard to those in Islam who would see our demise.
The whole godd**ned thing is broken. My mother still believes, by her faith, that it can all be fixed. I guess my faith is weaker, because I suspect we’ve passed the PONR. I swear, not a day goes by in my head where I’m haunted by Jefferson. Not the whole “tree of liberty” bit that raging conservatives and libertarians like to cite – but the “God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion” part.
I don’t think I ever appreciated what he was getting at with that remark, until I lived through the post-911 decade.
tldr. Sorry.
Felt the same way about The Avengers, Harvey, and so haven’t seen the new one (although I don’t think any US cities get it in the neck in that one). Destroying New York is a favorite pastime of moviemakers, but it’s just not fun anymore.
“Historic” in Detroit means back when people there worked, I can see why they wanted to get rid of it.
I got to watch them do this in person in Boston, it’s pretty amazing, there were buildings 20 feet away that didn’t get touched and it took months of preparation to do it. It’s actually an example of how much better we are than a bunch of primitive savages that fly airplanes into buildings thinking they’ll tip over..or something. They actually had no idea what would happen. That’s the difference, the people who do this know exactly what will happen.
The primitive “progressives” on the other hand, they haven’t got a clue what will happen, they burned all the history books.
What AT said – but with 12-foot seas.
@AT— Standing, slow clap. Don’t be sorry. 🙂
If only we could do that to Obamacare
Yeah just catching up on my IMAO consumption, and I think the win of a lifetime goes to AT