Very well said and very true. Sad to say however that, over the long haul, they appear to be succeeding in force-fitting their “subject” class into their Urban dystopias. I’ll point out just one element of the problem: from the article:
“Advocates argue that the demand for single-family homes is about to drop as retiring baby boomers and up-and-coming millennials will prefer to live in mixed-use neighborhoods with high densities and easy pedestrian access to stores and entertainment.
This claim isn’t supported by people’s actual behavior. The vast majority of population growth continues to be in low-density suburbs. Surveys of millennials show that more than three out of four aspire to live in a single-family home with a yard.”
Before we left the “City” this year, I came into daily contact with numerous millennials. They’re nice enough but the big problem is that the media, the social media and the opinion media, (which is 99% of the MSM), daily pump at them the view expressed in the first quoted paragraph.
They are not, for the most part, independent nor critical thinkers so they’ve internalized the message and have come to adopt the view as their own.
In the final analysis, those of us nearing retirement won’t be affected by this movement and those who will be, the so-called millennials and whatever offspring they might manage to produce, simply won’t know anything else.
One of the peculiar aspects of this movement is that rural America will literally be an empty quarter with near zero population and with the government or the UN in control of most all of the rural areas. Farmland operations will be owned by big Agribusiness. That trend has already started.
They are not, for the most part, independent nor critical thinkers so they’ve internalized the message and have come to adopt the view as their own.
I'm not sure your pessimism is entirely warranted. While this view of humans as being just one insignificant element of a herd is shoved at us through the media (leftist teachers, etc.), the reality is that the propaganda comes right up against our instinct. Humans are not instinctively herd creatures. We are born to want the open spaces--to want social structure, but in a limited fashion. No matter what dystopian schemes the left envisions, they cannot change our inborn human nature.
They are not, for the most part, independent nor critical thinkers
Anyone with a micro knowledge of common core education standards will know that critical thinking is one of the goals of common core. If anyone is dumb enough to believe that is truly a goal I have bridge property for sale.
As to your last paragraph, on “peculiar aspects”, agenda 21 again.