The age of fake communities connected by a socialist freeway system are over. That social model was never viable over the long term. It was created by cheap, domestic gasoline and is dying with cheap, domestic gasoline.
Man is a social animal. He was not meant to live in sterile, isolated tracts of plastic houses. He was not meant to live in a place where ownership of a motor vehicle is required in order to live. He was meant to live in a walkable city, like the polis of Athens. The very word “civilization” and “citizen” are derived from the word “city”. The word “heathen”, by contrast, means “those who live in the heath” — the countryside.
There’s nothing inhuman about living in the country, of course. The problem is that people who live in the suburbs want the pleasures of country living without the inconveniences. It would be one thing if city people who wanted a country lifestyle had settled for real country living, without convenient retail shopping, restaurants and so forth. It would have been fine if they were willing to farm of ranch or engage in some rural means of earning a living. But no, the suburban locusts had to have their shopping malls, fast food joints, and (ultimately) their cubicle jobs “out there”. End result: another city where “the country” once was — and the locusts move on, leaving another empty shell as a home for the Section 8s. Madness!
Even so, it’s not so much the suburbanites themselves that are the problem. They are mostly just people who failed to think the whole idea through. The problem is the acres and acres of fantastically expensive, taxpayer-funded concrete required to support the average suburbanite. The suburbs worked fine when they were connected to the cities by interurban electric railways. But when the government killed the railroads with their gigantic, socialist freeway systems, it was all over.
The suburbs wrecked the countryside of America. Well, no more. The era of paving over the countryside in order to give working class city people the chance to play “let’s pretend we live in the country” is over. If people want to live in the country, they should by God live in the country and live the life of a country dweller — a life of isolation and inconvenience, without dry cleaning, movie theaters, convenience stores, and paved roads. If they want city conveniences, they should suck it up, move back into town, and fight for their neighborhoods, as millions of us already do.
Join us and help drive out the parasites. We can rebuild the cities!
Are you for real? You love rail but you think highways are socialistic? Wait, wait, I know! You’re Willie Green’s sockpuppet!
What was so special about May 19th that you thought to sign up here?
What was so special about May 19th that you thought to sign up here?
‘The suburbs worked fine when they were connected to the cities by interurban electric railways. But when the government killed the railroads with their gigantic, socialist freeway systems, it was all over.’
Socialist Freeway System? Excuse me, but, in my state, $.42 per gallon is collected and only half of that money is used to build and maintain our roads. The other half goes to some socialist agenda that not self supporting like Amtrak.
IBTZ!!
Good little DemocRATS live in the packed warrens of their masters. Rich RAT overloards live in compounds.
Go ahead. No one is stopping you.
But while I might come for a visit once in a while, I'll stay out in the boonies, thanks.
If the shtf, y'all will be eating your neighbors.
Well, I reckon we can just stop hauling the food you city slickers want into town because the dirt road is washed out. So starve. No skin off my a$$. I'll follow the news on the internet. I don't wear a suit often enough that I'll miss a Dry Cleaner, Movies are available on line, and the 'Country Store' was the original "Convenience Store", right down to the gas pump out front (and prices to match).
Roads run both ways, but if you don't want them, kindly start ripping them up at the city limits, it'll slow down the riff-raff.
If they want city conveniences, they should suck it up, move back into town, and fight for their neighborhoods, as millions of us already do.
Fight for high crime, filth, waiting in line--everywhere, high taxes, trash, and did I mention crime? I must have missed the convenience in all that.
No thanks, fight for that all you want.
Join us and help drive out the parasites.
Don't drive them our way. Deal with your own trash, don't dump it out here.
BTW, the Interstate highway system wasn't built to support the suburbs, it was built to facillitate the rapid movement of troops. Suburbs were a side effect.
The same highways now transport tremendous tonnages of goods to the doorsteps of America in ridiculously little time, much of that from rural areas.
Maybe you think we should plow up all those roads and go back to quaint wagon rutted trails, but I think you need some experience out where the sidewalk isn't.
Your food, your energy, and the raw materials which feed the factories all come from out here in the boonies.
It may ding your little egos, but we can manage without you (and especially some of the dumb@ssed city-fied rules), not so the other way around.
Speak for yourself, you urban fool.
Pretty good post except you mixed apples and oranges. The “gigantic, socialist freeway systems” that “killed the railroads” can be debated (I happen to like interstate freeways). But they have little to do with suburbs. Those were driven by 20th century industry and post-war housing needs. More modern suburbs such as around DC (I live well outside that mess) are driven by white collar jobs. There’s absolutely no reason to live or work in the city anymore unless you are social worker, forensic pathologist, coroner, or similar occupation.
Your left wing nutter rant says it all.
Here’s a video posted here a few weeks ago. Regardless if this is an example of your answer or not, it’s worth the watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
So only those willing to live an agrarian life style should live in the country and modern agriculture only requires about 2% of the population. You also expect all city workers to be city dwellers. Are you planning on using the power of government to force people to behave as you see fit?
Your feverish ramblings leave out a significant portion of the population, many of whom you've pointed out are unfit to live in the country and unwanted in the city. Are you advocating genocide?
Screw you
If I had my atomic hovercraft, I wouldn’t need any taxpayer funded roads.
I hate cities with a passion. I this is America and I’d like to go where I damn well please, stay where I please, have a frigging 50,000 square foot house if I chose to do so.
You’re retarded.
Is / was that you Willie Green?
You are in dire need of a psychiatrist. I know you’re not around anymore, but I just wanted to get my two cents in (which is worth a lot more than yours BTW).
I live in a rural town. We are no better, nor worse, than anyone else on God’s green earth. If you don’t like our lifestyle, come here and confront me to my face. I’ll see to it that you see the light in a very little space of time.
This is one of the better ZOTS I’ve seen lately. What an arrogant, self-centered, screwed up, dumb POS.
Dude. You are clueless. Please don’t stand on you head and accuse the world of being upside down. IATZ. I don’t think it really is a question whether you are on the right board. I think it is a question of whether you existence is grounded in reality.
You’re insane — period.