Johnson said that he decided to name the bar after 9/11 because he had read a statistic which claimed that some 80 per cent of Americans never heard of 9/11.
‘We were remodeling the bar so I said “We’re not going to forget. And people who come into this restaurant aren’t going to forget”.’
Johnson said that those mocking his bar on Twitter are actually proving his point because ‘they thought of 9/11’ – which was the goal all along.
‘Mission accomplished,’ he said.
9/11 may have killed a thousand or so Americans but the jingoism following was clearly the one time millions of other Americans felt truly alive. Otherwise they wouldn't still be talking about it twenty years later like a sad divorced guy. 9/11 was the best wife they ever had and now it's all over.
It’s unironically the only time many conservatives felt a bond with others not like them.
the labor aristocracy has a mental dependency on skyscrapers, the architecture of late capitalism