It is interesting to think that you can still be tortured to death in a building with carpet and air conditioing. Such manifestations of modernity carry with them a feeling of safety to americans. Blood is poured down drains while a few rooms away, two day old coffee is treated the same. Perhaps it is madness to find this state of affairs objectionable. After all, entire lifetimes seperate the one from the other. There is no reason to give value to a moorish palace and a fascist monument next to one another.