There's this quote from the late 1800s -- I think it was attributed to Mark Twain...? -- it goes something like,
"More outrage and worry is spent on damage to brick and mortar than you will ever see over harm to blood and bone."
I've no doubt butchered it. Sorry, couldn't find the proper verbiage on the search engines :shrug-outta-hecks:
Out there in Counter-Factual Alternate History Land is a world where Bin Laden sent all the plains at the pentagon. I wonder what the response of Americans would have been? I kinda think it would have played out more like he hoped -- with more public scrutiny into the United State's involvement in the middle east. "Why has this happened?" but as a genuine question, rather than the rhetorical outlet of anger we got. Getting both towers was a theatrical flourish, it seared the event into the public's mind... but it also fixed it, as an obvious attack against them. If it had only been the pentagon? Certainly not as showy, but also harder to frame as a "direct offensive".
sent all the plains at the pentagon
The media would play up the victims in the airplanes a lot more, which they weirdly don't do as much right now. I guess because most of them weren't bankers or whatever lol like the people in the WTC.
Are the people who died still inside the towers? Do they have to spend all of eternity trapped inside an office building?
“More outrage and worry is spent on damage to brick and mortar than you will ever see over harm to blood and bone.”
Ninja edit - I should have checked the comments! Haha.
I was curious about that so I googled and googled but I got nowhere.But I did find this creepy oddity...The use of blood to make concrete
In 1980, Charles Laleman of France received a US patent (No. 4,203,674) for a technique for making concrete by mixing together cement with blood. His patent described a variety of different recipes one could use to create this blood concrete. [...] The advantage of using blood, Laleman argued, was that the oxygen in it produced a lighter concrete.
Scab of the human kind?
There's a brickbat joke somewhere but I can't find it.
brickbat <noun>
1 A piece of brick, typically when used as a weapon.
1.1 A remark or comment which is highly critical and typically insulting.
