Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story ""Toward A More Perfect Union: Lessons Learned - Or Not - Since 9/11"" As a person who saw the Twin Towers destroyed, I say passionately that what people should have learned from 9/11 is how dangerous contempt is, and the urgent need to be against it. Eli Siegel, poet, philosopher, and founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, showed that contempt "the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it" is the cause of all the cruelty and injustice that has ever been. In the international journal, The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism Ellen Reiss writes: Contempt is what impelled the persons who arranged for human beings to be killed and buried under 110 stories of rubble near the Hudson River on a beautiful September morning. Yet our leaders have responded to this contempt by having enormous contempt themselves: by trying to make the Constitution worthless and democracy redundant, and by continuing to act with brutal indifference to what millions of people around the world feel and deserve. Ellen Reiss explains: Every one of us would like to issue an executive order: ëI want the world on my termsóand fast! And I wont stand for any questioning in the matter. In the instance of a national leader, the ability to have things on ones own terms and unquestioned affects millions of people, often in the most crucial, intimate, agonizing, life-or-death ways. And this contempt pervades the American attitude to the rest of the world, friend and foe alike. In "#1 Rogue Nation," USA Today writes: Around the world many see the US as arrogant, hypocritical, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, and contemptuous of others. For the world to be safe and 9/11 made this an emergency people everywhere must study and oppose contempt everywhere, including in themselves and in their leaders. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp67.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-02-28