You’re right, it’s a doozy! On the one hand, it’s refreshing to read something that sounds real, rather than the product of a Content-Free Sentence Generator. On the other hand, when one person gets real, others tend to get upset. On the third hand, I think the issues he’s discussing are universal, both in space and time.
It’s a real problem. When I was graduating local Catholic school in the Bronx in the 1960’s our parish was beating hell out of everybody to chip in to build a gym. The neighborhood was in transition,and it was pretty clear the only one’s playing basketball there in the future will be kids moving in, not us moving out. So I went and told the Monsignor that; and he promptly threw me out, saying something akin to me aboutblaspheming the Church.
And yes, we built it but I never got to play any sports there.