Friday, September 28, 2007

On the subject of symbolism.

Go to any major city in the world and look for architecture that has some symbolic meaning and you will find it. Washington D.C. has its penises, breasts, sun bursts bulls and owls. New York has the Five Points. Paris has the Pyramid at the eagles, or owls, head, just east of the Arc de Triomphe, depending what ancient symbolism you want to use. Check out the sun burst building of the notoriously named Bush House in London, home to the BBC World Service. Then we have the Pentagon. Is it a pentagram, or a pentacle? Either way it is more evidence of the lunatics that built the planets cities having deep ties to symbolism. Now some people are pissed off about the "Swastika" building on Coronado Island in San Diego. If you have Google Earth, go to 32 degrees 40'29.36"N, by 117 degrees 09'27.75W, there you will see a building laid out in a right facing swastika pattern. This building has many people outraged and the city is planning on covering it up which would cost tax payers anywhere from six hundred thousand, to one million dollars. People are even more outraged because the building is a US Navy barracks, some say it is in poor taste to have a Nazi symbol on an American military base. Well, you have to see the big picture here and if you look directly to the west two blocks, you can see a couple of buildings lined up that look a whole lot like airplanes flying directly toward the swastika. I am serious, look at it. These buildings don't make the news but they are there. Now using the power of obvious symbolism and a bit of common sense, you too can piece this puzzle together. Take a Navy base, add some airplane symbols, plus a swastika, then a dash of history and you get what? Remember that whole thing, what was it called? Oh yeah, World War Two. That thing, where American bombers bombed Germany. Our country helped the Allied Forces beat the Axis Forces. Remember that? This is obviously some kind of tribute to that. I am not saying it is in the best of taste but it is not worth the money to cover it up. I live in San Diego and I don't want to pay for it. Hell, they could just name the whole thing a WWII memorial and no one would care. There, problem solved. Now if you want a symbolism mystery, explain to me why Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York, seems to be on the back of either a pentagram or a turtle. Maybe it's a pentaturtle, I don't know, I really never got symbolism.

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