'Cathedral of Light'- is a NAZI Ripoff from the 1937 Nuremberg Rally

[JCMach1]

The design and idead was Albert Speer's



Not fit to honor the dead... :grr:

What have we become?

[Journeyman]

1. William Shakespeare. . .

from "Sonnet 76". . .

So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent


And here's a thought from Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1709:

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

[bobbieinok]

2. 1934 ralley filmed in Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will?????

[Renew Deal]

3. This is incredibly inflammatory and insensitive.

What have we become? New Yorkers and Americans grieving our own. The light is up only 1 day a year now and it's a fitting tribute.

[JCMach1]

9. The imagery is real we can deny its origin at our peril

Many Germans thought the effect at Nurnberg was beautiful and fitting as well...

[Renew Deal]

10. Right,

all of us NYers are Nazi's. :eyes:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Right,

He said all NY'ers are Nazis. :eyes:

[TheMadMonk]

14. Not at all.

Poetic beauty can be found in the strangest of places. As can truth.

Lobbying by the tobacco industry aside, the Nazis knew the truth about smoking decades before the rest of the world was forced to concede the truth. And even then, the truth was "new", since admitting that the Nazis got there first would have been suicidal.

In response to the OP, I have no problem with this imagery. The source of any given idea is largely irrelevant. What truly (and only) matters, is the reason for which an idea is put forward. Thus tugging at heartstrings to advance one's personal cause at the expense of others is bad. (Whoopsie George)

Plucking a glissando to commemorate the many lives cut short is to be applauded en creshendo.

[The Stranger]

17. You've substituted the Neonazicons for "all New Yorkers"?

That is the most transparent strawman I have ever seen.

[The Stranger]

16. Questioning is not "inflammatory" or "insensitive." It is what free

peoples do. Those who do not like it do not have to participate.

[blogslut]

4. Don't you think

you're reaching?

[UncleSepp]

5. OMG the Nazis wore underpants, we should take ours off!

Freedom Commandos!!

[Kurovski]

6. Lol!!!

:rofl: :rofl:

And with that, I depart DU for the night. Thanks for that, Unc!

[133724]

7. mine are stained brown...

am I a brown shorter.....

[pitohui]

8. unclesepp gets it right

hitler was a vegetarian by the way so all you vegetarians you are right out

[The Stranger]

19. No, massive, awe-inspiring, war-generating public displays are not the

same thing as food. Unclesepp gets it completely wrong.

[The Stranger]

18. Large, war-time, government-created massive displays are not the

same thing as underpants. You know that.

Thanks for playing.

[deaniac21]

22. The Nazi women had pubic hair, we should......oh, nevermind.

[FearofFutility]

11. I don't know what "we've become"

But, if I had to guess, you've become a major stock holder in Reynolds Aluminum foil. Your REALLY stretching it there. I think the lights are beautiful and are fitting tribute.

[hedgehog]

12. Some day we may be able to reclaim the swastika, too

Before Hitler, it was an ancient and honored symbol of the sun across many cultures in the old world and the new.

[npincus]

21. the swastika in reverse (or backwards) is the Japanese symbol

for "temple"

[radfringe]

15. the entire bush/rummy/cheney/rice/rove plans

are all rip offs

[npincus]

20. oh please,

Light, water, earth and fire used as media in buildings, works of art, environmental design, belong to no person or regime or era. Light has always been used by architects, designers and builders throughout time, until the present, to symbolize the spirit, whether G-d or human. Albert Speer's work was filmed extensively by Leni Riefenstahl to dessiminate and document Hiter's power and ideology. By that token, should documentary film-making be considered tainted?

I'm a New Yorker who can see the lights from across the river in NJ where I live now. I can think of no more beautiful, fitting tribute to the people and towers, to the fill the empty sky- light energy, from earth reaching to the sky.