World's tallest metaphor for a failed state
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:56 am
Being a tour guide, I constantly point out San Francisco's Salesforce office tower, the tallest building west of Chicago. The top of the building has 5,000 led's that put on a light show every night. For Halloween it was the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings:
I thought that was pretty cool, until I read about the Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang. It is the largest unoccupied building in the world, slightly taller than the Salesforce tower. The White Elephant is a hotel built in 1987 that has never had a single guest. Until recently a painful eyesore, it has been transformed with 100,000 led's into work of propaganda:
Using your country's largest visible failure as the billboard to trumpet your successes makes this the world's tallest metaphor for a failed state.
I thought that was pretty cool, until I read about the Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang. It is the largest unoccupied building in the world, slightly taller than the Salesforce tower. The White Elephant is a hotel built in 1987 that has never had a single guest. Until recently a painful eyesore, it has been transformed with 100,000 led's into work of propaganda:
Using your country's largest visible failure as the billboard to trumpet your successes makes this the world's tallest metaphor for a failed state.