Posted on December 31, 2003
ok, i know that i get a bit vitriolic at times about politics.
perhaps it's a personal shortcoming(mine), or perhaps it's a personal shortcoming(theirs).
but i just read about chris shays, an elected official from connecticut, saying that he wouldn't go to times square on new years eve.
ok, chris, then don't bother coming to new york at all.
this is my city, the city of my birth, and i love it when it's safe and i love it when it's unsafe.
i love it when it's beautiful and i love it when it's ugly.
if you can't share an unconditional love for what is possibly the most eclectic, most tolerant(ironic seeing as i'm not being particularly tolerant here...), most remarkable, most idiosyncratic, most dynamic, most etc city in the world, then don't bother coming to visit us.
new york is not just a city for good times when you feel safe.
it's a living breathing city full of 10 million(or more)people from every country on the face of the earth. every religion is represented here. every gender(there are many more than the conventional 2)is represented here. every creed, every screed, every orientation, every belief, every etc is represented and celebrated and tolerated here.
so don't you dare show conditional love for this city, the city of my birth. and don't you dare couch your squeamishness in the lanuguage of concern.
a city as dynamic and phenomenal as nyc deserves unqualified and unconditional love, and i'm sort of sorry if i sound hyperbolic, but this is a city of effortless hyperbole.
love us or leave us, and as a native new yorker i'm arrogant and proud in saying that there's no middle ground.
-moby
perhaps it's a personal shortcoming(mine), or perhaps it's a personal shortcoming(theirs).
but i just read about chris shays, an elected official from connecticut, saying that he wouldn't go to times square on new years eve.
ok, chris, then don't bother coming to new york at all.
this is my city, the city of my birth, and i love it when it's safe and i love it when it's unsafe.
i love it when it's beautiful and i love it when it's ugly.
if you can't share an unconditional love for what is possibly the most eclectic, most tolerant(ironic seeing as i'm not being particularly tolerant here...), most remarkable, most idiosyncratic, most dynamic, most etc city in the world, then don't bother coming to visit us.
new york is not just a city for good times when you feel safe.
it's a living breathing city full of 10 million(or more)people from every country on the face of the earth. every religion is represented here. every gender(there are many more than the conventional 2)is represented here. every creed, every screed, every orientation, every belief, every etc is represented and celebrated and tolerated here.
so don't you dare show conditional love for this city, the city of my birth. and don't you dare couch your squeamishness in the lanuguage of concern.
a city as dynamic and phenomenal as nyc deserves unqualified and unconditional love, and i'm sort of sorry if i sound hyperbolic, but this is a city of effortless hyperbole.
love us or leave us, and as a native new yorker i'm arrogant and proud in saying that there's no middle ground.
-moby
p.s-john lennon and marcel duchamp and tennessee williams and henry miller and about 50,000,000 other amazing people have made nyc their home, so if you, mr. shays, choose to stay away, well, fine. we won't miss you.
