Posted on 09/06/2009 9:33:33 AM PDT by re_tail20
I've shared plenty here about feral dogs; I have heard people here use the word "feral" because so many of Detroit's strays learn to survive long-term on their own. Feral, used in this sense, means they have reverted to a wild state, as from domestication. Our world feral comes from the Latin root fera, or "wild beast," but it also has a connection to another Latin word, feralis, literally: belonging to the dead.
I've seen "feral" used to describe dogs, cats, even goats. But I have wondered if it couldn't also be used to describe certain houses in Detroit. Abandoned houses are really no big deal here. Some estimate that there are as many as 10,000 abandoned structures at any given time, and that seems conservative. But for a few beautiful months during the summer, some of these houses become "feral" in every sense: they disappear behind ivy or the untended shrubs and trees planted generations ago to decorate their yards. The wood that framed the rooms gets crushed by trees rooted still in the earth. The burnt lime, sand, gravel, and plaster slowly erode into dust, encouraged by ivy spreading tentacles in its endless search for more sunlight.
Like some of the dogs I've seen using these houses as shelter (I followed a whole pack into #9 last week), these houses are reverting to a wild state, as from domestication, a word derived itself from domesticus (the Latin for belonging to the domus, or house). Now these houses are feralis. They belong only to the dead.
Just click on the link at the top.
You must have missed the news..>>>>
ACORN says the houses are THEIRS now...
This is a great set of photos!
Sounds like an opportunity to solve 2 problems at once.
great pics
this shows the ending point in the life cycle of a liberal enclave
never forget that Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” was a big influence in the downward spiral
maybe that show “life after people” should go there and film what happens in real time.......
Ket’s leave Detroit the way it is. It’s an ideal setting for those post-apocalyptic and last man on earth movies.
There is a little town on the 395 heading into Bishop and Mammoth that looks like these places.
Such poverty 20 feet from the road - it was amazing.
The town was called Johannesburg and looked like it should be in Africa.
It's a DEMOCRAT THING ! Decades, generations of, DEM RULE get you Gary, Detroit etc etc etc etc ---Fact of life in the USA....
They did.
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