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The World: Who Wants It? proposes a concrete
plan, albeit satirical, for re-establishing world peace.
Set in the near present, the $100 billion that has been pledged
by the United States to address the world's wrongs is used
to advocate consumptive restraint and to seek new American
Values, thus lessening the fury of the Third World against
America's apparent wastage, misuse of resources, vice, and
militaristic bombast. In this vision of a new world order,
International policy largely focuses on the rebuilding of
the city of Jerusalem so as to accommodate all the hope and
aspirations of the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity,
Islam, and Judaism.
The starting point for Ben Nicholson's restructuring of the
world is that what was remarkable about the World Trade Center
is that its given name purported to suggest that the building
was the center of world trade. When the towers were removed
they took along with them a myriad of links and responsibilities
that course throughout the globe, touching every aspect of
life. It is ultimately immaterial what the shape and size
of the rebuilt World Trade Center will be, unless the whole
world is simultaneously rethought and restructured along
with the reconstruction. What would the new world order be?
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