It’s bad enough that the Met produced this abomination. But the people who pay and attend should all be ashamed of themselves.
Should rename the Opera “Springtime for Palestine”.
No, it is exactly glorification of hatred and evil for the amusement of our decadent overlords.
Were Mr Tommasini to find himself in that wheelchair, perhaps his lofty contemplation of "motivations" would take on a more tangible realization of terror and evil.
What a truly despicable human.
"After Stockhausen described the WTC bombing [of September 11, 2001] as 'the greatest work of art ever' a journalist asked him if he equated art and crime. He answered: 'It is a crime because the people were not agreed. They didn't go to the 'concert.' That is clear. And no one gave them notice that they might pass away [draufgehen]. What happened there spiritually, this jump out of security, out of the everyday, out of life, that happens sometimes poco a poco in art. Otherwise it is nothing.'"
The inability to separate ethics and aesthetics is a basic element of postmodernism. Transformation by crafting is an ethical act of selfless love. Transformation by purposeful destruction is an act of selfish indifference: the Achille Lauro terrorists, like the 9/11 terrorists, like the Canadian terrorist and the Jamaica Queens terrorist, were indifferent to the lives of the people, indifferent to the transforming power of the architects and constructors of the ship and the buildings, indifferent even to their own lives. That is what makes them evil, and it is what also makes them fools in the Biblical sense of the word.