rant · moment 9 of 29
How 9/11 Changed New York City
from #217 - Cuties | The Tim Dillon Show · #217
2 min
Tim describes how 9/11 transformed New York from a tough, criminal city into a tourist-coddling, sanitized place, changing restaurant aesthetics from opulent to rustic 'green market' style, and draws parallels to COVID fear tactics.
- 9/11 transformed New York from a tough, increasingly safe city into a vulnerable victim that had to be protected and appealed to.
- Disney on Broadway and Midwestern tourists replaced the hard edges of pre-9/11 New York, making it into a safe, general city designed for everyone to enjoy.
- Opulent 1990s French fine dining with lace tablecloths and bank cats gave way after 9/11 to exposed brick, steel pipes, and wooden tables as the city rejected luxury as inappropriate.
- Tim sees overlap between how 9/11 was used to constantly terrorize the public and similar patterns emerging with corona and Dr. Fauci telling people to hunker down for winter.