the one thing the erection of a massive tower in the park most starkly does not represent is freedom. it represents utter disdain for freedom, for nature, green space, and community. the thing the massive tower in the people's park most painfully represents is the imminent and irresistible force of the land grab, it represents the anti-democratic philosophy of survival of the wealthiest and the greediest. it represents theft of the commons. it shows us that nothing is of the people by the people for the people. that everything, without exception, is for the taking. the tower is a ghostly ghastly illumination in glass and steel and hubris representing empire over people, it says, you have no sanctuary, you have no nature to call home, you have no place to rest, it represents we take what we want, and we want yours. we want you green space by the lake, we want to play golf in your sanctuary, we want you to find your community elsewhere, for this is our playground now, this is our treaty, our imminent domain.