It's just all too complex for us simple Americans

“A Tom Franklin photograph of firefighters raising an American flag in the midst of the rubble of Ground Zero … was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum for being too ‘rah-rah America,’ according to the museum's creative director Michael Shulan, as quoted in Elizabeth Greenspan's book "Battle for Ground Zero." ‘I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is not to be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently,’ Shulan said. Eventually, three different versions of the photograph were shown. Somewhere, Toby Keith's America-sense is tingling.”

http://now.msn.com/9-11-photo-by-tom-franklin-nearly-excluded-from-museum-for-being-too-pro-america

Shulan: “My concern, as it always was, is that we not reduce [9/11] down to something that was too simple, and in its simplicity would actually distort the complexity of the event, the meaning of the event.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/pic_fire_fight_Bl5WA1MEU7AaQeabPas4uK

(The simplicity of the picture would distort the complexity of what happened. Hey, we Americans are pretty much a simple people. We don’t like complexity. We used to see right vs. wrong. People like Shulan operate in an in-between area where there are no finalities. People like Shulan want to control other’s thoughts and perceptions.)