The story is about the redesign of the freedom tower but the comparison to other buildings made me think. Even in an age of terrorism and big targets, we still seek to build structures taller and taller. It's an amazing sight to see these massive buildings, especially in a city. One can easily sense the awe-inspiring power that humanity possess.
All the way from Babel through to today, humanity has sought to climb physically higher toward heaven and has failed to see the vanity and hopeless in the desire. All the towering accomplishments will not last, someday they will be thrown down to rubble and we'll have only ourselves left. What will humanity do then? Will we learn or will we try to do it our own way again? Will we learn that it is our spiritual selves, and not our buildings, that we must cultivate into towers to heaven? Or will we continue to delude ourselves, as those at Babel did, and believe that our works will gain us access to that highest prize?
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