Posted on 08/20/2020 9:33:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Dear Altucher,
Have you not walked the streets? Have you not seen the people here? Born here, bred here, living and breathing here.
They are scrappy, scared, hungry, and tired, but more importantly, they’re pissed. If anything the rebel cry of thousands, millions, fighting to live is what should terrify anyone that dare declare us dead.
New York isn’t just Broadway shows, boutiques, restaurants, and comedy clubs. All of that is just a beautiful by-product of this place. A place that ceaselessly churns out cultures and food and languages and arts and ideas that are so revered because the people who comprise them make it so.
Ariama C. Long
They’ve learned to thrive in the seedy underbelly that threatens to drag all of us, East New York to Bay Ridge, Queensbridge to Laurelton, Mott Haven to Mount Vernon, from the Battery to the Heights, Staten Island, Black, White, whatever.
New York is a dream of subverting circumstances to rise above, and yes, it is also destruction, hopelessness, homelessness, loss, and death.
People die here. We’ve interred so many it’s incalculable.
We have literally built our lives and city on the bones of the forgotten, padded it with trash, and paved the roads to make a way for newer things. These memories, these lives are the things we carry every day.
New York has never been kind and it won’t be in the coming months and years after a plague has ravaged the entire country.
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Both times we pulled into Governor’s Island I took the EOW watch and made weekend/holiday duty exchange bucks for NOT taking the ferry into New Yawk City.
My only draw was getting a Nathan’s hot dog. I’m over it now.
It’s what observably separates us from the apes.
This scene sums up the priority of these endeavors. It would seem that if we neglect the foundational skills of civilization, the fine arts are of little use. There is no utopia in this life.
Are you saying it is necessary, now, to choose between the two?
That we cannot have both?
I live in the woods 70 miles from Canada.
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