[flowerplough]

What does “ruin porn” tell us about the motor city, ourselves, other American cities?

It tells us the truth.

[the invisib1e hand]

It tells us the truth

It tells us A truth. THE truth can't be "told" -- but that's getting into something else.

Anyway, I think that, by the time this happens to Silicon Valley, anybody without a "666" on his forehead will be dead.

[Rich21IE]

The truth about the future.

[cripplecreek]

The roots lie in the late 60s.

[Da Coyote]

The pictures - as always - are depressing.

However, after reading the article, is it only me that found that if one dug beneath the flowery writing, there was little - if any - substance?

Generalities like “failed this or that,” don’t hack it.

Something went wrong. Actually, lots of things went wrong. Dammit, put on an engineering hat and figure it out so we won’t do it again.

And keep the nice sounding verbiage for publications that don’t matter - like the NYT.

[mbynack]

They just need stronger unions and higher taxes and everything could be fixed.

[FourPeas]

What does “ruin porn” tell us about the motor city, ourselves, other American cities?

It very plainly shows us the results of the progressive/liberal agenda being implemented. Detroit, though it's unions and liberal politicians, bought into the lie that it's better to give people what they want and need rather than to allow them to fail. When personal failure is made impossible, societal failure is guaranteed.

[MNDude]

yet, they will never try to vote republican because they’ve been taught to fear what it may bring.

[ConservaTexan]

No one should surprised that as the muzzies take over Michigan it begins to look more and more like a third world country.

[Gondring]

For those into "ruin porn" other than Detroit...
Photo Gallery: The Art of Lost Places. Soviet Sanatoriums and Abandoned Breweries

[NativeSon]

Detroit is the physical record of Progressive-idealogical success.

[cripplecreek]

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Detroit ruins:

United Artists Theater, built in 1928

Woodward Ave. Church, built in 1911

East side public library

Dentist cabinet, Broderick tower

Farwell building

[arkady_renko]

“Detroit today,” he wrote, “is your town tomorrow.”

[Cyber Liberty]

Coleman Young, Detroit’s charismatic and still-controversial mayor during the years of the city’s most precipitous decline in the nineteen seventies and eighties, put it well in his fascinating 1994 autobiography, Hard Stuff: “Detroit today,” he wrote, “is your town tomorrow.”

Well, I don't think Young can put anything "well" or "charismatic." If there was one person you could blame for the destruction of Detroit as a major metropolis, that person's name would be spelled "C-o-l-e-m-a-n Y-o-u-n-g." I had a lot of friends flee that place because of his racist policies.