"Commerce Is The Life Of The Nation"
The many porticoes and archways throughout the Fisher Building have art deco images bearing homage and worship to the many tennements of commerce. The building itself was built as a testament to The Great American Economy, a guilded celebration of wealth.
Its final version was never built. What was envisioned as three great towers in the center of the city ceased construction with one tower. As the building that now stands was completed, the stock market crashed and the world fell into great depression. Commerce, it seems, cannot alone feed the nation. The world had forgotten that commerce is nothing without the heart and soul of its people.
With the turn of the 21st Century came a great wave of economic expansion. Commerce's new day, with wealth full in the pockets of those who control it. Yet for much of the world something has felt off. Everything has been good, but with something awry under the surface.
And the Earth breathed.
Across the globe of humanity, breath carried the power to stop the oceans of commerce.
And the rallymen of commerce have raised their banners declaring that the good of its wealth is worth the cost of a few [many] lives.
As it was true before, it remains true today. Commerce cannot live without the life of its people.
The phrase adorned on the Fisher Building's arcade is wrong.
Commerce is not the life of the nation.
WE are the life of the nation.
It is time for us to embrace the humanity that holds us together. It is time to see and feel the heartbeat that keeps us alive. We must see each other before we put our faith in man-made constructs of wealth and value, void of any moral compass.
The Life Of The Nation Is The Heart Of Its People.