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Uploaded by on Nov 17, 2006

Here's one for Dave Emory to check out. The art critic Robert Hughes refers to NYC as "ground zero" of a Modernist "explosion" in this clip from the PBS/BBC-produced series American Visions.

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  • Hughes did it

  • uh, that is a sad attempt at a connection. The term Ground Zero has been used quite a bit since it was birthed in the Atomic age. Next you will be saying the building formed an eleven-oooohh stop being silly.

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  • this is an utterly stupid video.

  • No, he just used the phrases "ground zero", which existed before 9/11 and does not just mean "location of the World Trade Centre", and "modernist explosion". Modernism was a cultural movement in the first half of the 20th century, not an actual explosion.

  • Well, in truth didn't Nostradamus predict some sort of 1000-year east/west war starting on or around the new millenium? At first they all thought he might have meant Saddam Hussein, but Bin Laden might gave been the "king in the east" (or whatever he wrote).

    Makes you think...

  • It all makes sense now.

    We all know that Robert Hughes loathes most post-modern art.

    American art critics must have used their vast understanding of culture to subliminally influence the Taliban into blowing up the twin towers.

    At this point they knew that it was only a matter of time before some important post-modern creative person made a pretentious remark about it.

    In 2002 Stockhausen did and the critics chuckled heartily at their success.

    The truth is out there.

    Art critics did 9/11.

  • Too funny. Very clever Slight Headache.

  • What year this documentary?

  • Who wasn't?

  • He was in on it.

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