The 20th century offers object lessons in why fleeing cities for suburban and exurban settings can backfire — even if it seems like a good idea at first. In the early 1900s, many large cities were suffering from the side-effects of rapid industrialization: they were polluted, full of high-density housing with bad sanitation. Crime flourished.... There were disease outbreaks, too... In response, a new wave of utopian thinkers proposed moving to... “the garden city”... As the craze for these British-style garden cities grew in the States, Frank Lloyd Wright wrote about building a uniquely American version. ... Wright argued that the Usonian city wouldn’t be a flight from modernity.... Brand-new inventions like telephones, radio and automobiles meant everyone’s work could be done remotely....Great! What's the problem? Why isn't this the answer today, when the ability to work remotely is much more well-developed?
20th century suburbia was not "Utopia." There were racially exclusionary policies, the houses were more expensive in reality than in theory, and people needed cars. That's the basis of Newitz's warning about "the false promise of suburban living." She concludes:
Ultimately, the garden city future is a false Utopia. The answer to our current problems isn’t to run away from the metropolis. Instead, we need to build better social support systems for people in cities so that urban life becomes healthier, safer and more sustainable.Some designers expressed Utopian ideas, but that doesn't mean it had to be Utopia to be worth doing at all. You have to live somewhere, and the alternative is also not Utopia. There's a lot that Newitz isn't saying here. Underlying her conclusions is, I think, a recognition that the cities are in decline — perhaps even approaching a death spiral. For the good of the city and all the people who don't have the means to leave, the more well-off people are encouraged to stay. If they go, the place will collapse. So please, city people with the means to relocate, stay here, keep paying taxes and give your wealth to the noble cause of making "urban life... healthier, safer and more sustainable."
Neither the city nor suburbia is Utopia, but what happens when the city is virulently dystopian? How long are people supposed to tough it out? Perhaps Newitz's point is only a small one: Don't imagine suburbia to be any better than it is. You're always trading one set of benefits and problems for another.
But you're always taking your own selfish interests into account even as you want to support the good of the group. In a real disaster, of course, you will run. Is the disaster here yet... and when is it too late to run?
But don't you want to be optimistic? Ironically, if you're optimistic about the cities at this point, you're more like the theorists of suburbia, who dreamed of Utopia.
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Shorter NYT: You people must not leave the city for the suburbs. After all, how can you survive without three decent bagel shops within walking distance of your cramped, expensive apartment???
The NYT doesn't have comments on this column. I can't help thinking that's because they know it's incompletely argued and they don't want what's missing to be filled in.
We lived in a "first suburb" neighborhood in North Carolina. It was specifically setup about a mile or two past the farthest point of the streetcar line so you *had* to have a car (and "help") to live there. Originally designed to hold horses, it was completed in late 1929....
So no horses. But there was city bus service at 7am and 7pm to bring the "help" to and from the town/actual to the neighborhood since they didn't have cars.
The bus service, modified from 7am to 5pm lasted through the late 1970's when the hiring of help and non-car ownership became rare. This particular 'burb was completely part of the core of the city/urban-living zone by then.
-XC
PS - It was a lovely place to raise kids - good public schools (for the south) and several private/parochial options.
We'll always have something to bitch about
Manna from heaven
Hollywood worked hard to show us the emptiness and depravity of "suburbia"
And how how happy the gay parent household would be
"How long are people supposed to tough it out?"
As long as progs and their voting enablers deem necessary.
The answer to our current problems isn’t to run away from the metropolis. Instead, we need to build better social support systems for people in cities so that urban life becomes healthier, safer and more sustainable.
Social support systems like failing schools and gutted police forces?
There is no utopia without labor, and thus, by definition, utopia doesn’t exist. Ergo, utopia is what you make it.
Here's hoping New Yorkers fall for the opinion piece. I rather they live with what they elected than spread to other areas. Life in suburbia sucks, lawn mowers running all the time, children screaming as they run around outside, dogs barking, constant smells of smoldering charcoal, and birds chirping. You may have to drive 2 miles for the nearest Starbucks.
Great! What's the problem? Why isn't this the answer today, when the ability to work remotely is much more well-developed?
Because you are far easier to control when you live in the city. Your mobility is limited (typically no car) and so your movements are more easily controlled. Your cell phone and all the CCTV help keep an eye on you. You are warehoused in hi-rises for easy access and storage. Smaller area so again easier to control. Suburbia covers some miles and is all spread out. Suburbia folks "tend" to be less "just in time" supplies and so have a bit more built in elasticity. More area means more bodies are needed to control fewer people. Control costs go up. NYT always liked them some fascists, it is all about the efficiency. You know, making the trains run on time and all.
the Left has become brazen, and when the left becomes brazen there's big trouble ahead.
the democrats are calling for nation-wide vote-by-mail. most of Europe and many other nations ban this practice. and for the obvious reason that it is how you steal an election in broad daylight. they are taking us to the edge of the abyss from which we made not return.
some democrats,like the author of the article, are not crazy and are trying to save as much as they can. but, with dozens of states producing disputed election results, there would only be chaos. the House of rep would choose the president - but who would be the majority in the House? no one would know. the military would decide - but how would they choose? right now this looks like the final scene in that epic movie The Vanishing Point - and we are all Kowalski. if a single swing state uses vote-by-mail then a hard rain's gonna fall.
To AA comment
People will accept the headline. As you reveal almost everyday, the media goal is not presenting facts
Narrative setting is their only game.
Okay NYT now examine the false promise of city living so we can compare and contrast. Really. How have cities key the city dwellers down, I wonder? Are they safe? Do people feel secure? Can they exercise their 1st and 2nd amendment rights freely? Is the environment clean and services reliable? Is there peace? Is there quiet? Are there functioning public schools teaching traditional American values?
Why not?
The latest leftmedia/Democrat bogeyman: Suburbia! Beware!
Will the fatuousness never end?
So please, city people with the means to relocate, stay here, keep paying taxes and give your wealth to the noble cause of making "urban life... healthier, safer and more sustainable.
"Of course, if you're not interested, there's the door.
Alright, thanks." [Walks out door]
The desperation isn't so veiled, and the fear is palpable. Anything they can do to keep people from voting with their feet to leave the urban shitholes they have done everything in their power for 20 years to fuck up.
And people always wondered why soviet citizens needed an 'exit visa'. My response to them is LOL get fucked.
People from blue cities will gentrify red suburbs by dominating political power and flip the electoral college script. It's Califorinication on a grandeur scale.
The poor white trash flyover Shitholes are long overdue a deep cleansing and makeover. Isn't Free market capitalism wonderful.
The 20th century is full of examples of the false promise of suburban living.
Too bad they couldn't provide any of those examples. Or even an example of a suburban area in which the prices decreased at some point because it was so terrible to live there.
"Usonia", apparently the most terrible place of all, has that status because it has gardens and people drive cars.
Which reminds me, they's boyfriend disguises itself as a woman.
The poor white trash flyover Shitholes are long overdue a deep cleansing and makeover. Isn't Free market capitalism wonderful.
Winning hearts and minds...
Ergo we need govt. to decide where we should live to make sure there is the right mix of the right people in the community to pay the right amount of taxes to take care of everyone in the community.
You, as an individual, must be a little less selfish and do what is good for the community, not what is best for yourself.
The suggestion that city dwellers are going to find the suburbs too expensive is just laughable. And only a certain kind of New Yorker could complain, "oh no, I get to drive a car!"
The appeal errs in the premise the decision is based in emotion when for most the decision is almost entirely economic. You can put up with a lot of crap including enough taxes to choke a horse provided net compensation and future opportunity are sufficient- but there is a limit to what one can bear. I think we've found that limit. Not sure if the lefties running the place realize it or they're going all in on hope the democrats win and bail them out with unlimited treasury funds...I'm guessing both.
I have lived in ruralville, suburbia, and cities. They all have pluses and minuses.
My older 2 children lived in several places growing up thanks to Navy living. 10-20% of their classmates were different every year- and sometimes they were the new ones. My younger two grew up in ruralville. Their graduating classes were the people they went to kindergarten with. There is a definite difference between the way they interact with ew people and new situations. But a smaller difference between them and my younger kids and their classmates who never traveled more than 50 miles from home growing up. My younger kids visited relatives in 4 other states, traveled through several more on vacations, and we made multiple day trips to the Canadian side of the falls.
People aren’t perfect and can’t be perfected. The places they live in? The same.
Ann Althouse: "The NYT doesn't have comments on this column. I can't help thinking that's because they know it's incompletely argued and they don't want what's missing to be filled in."
Bingo.
This argument that the suburbs are 'bad' and not desired by most, while the cities are 'good' and ultimately where everyone needs to be is a dead argument that somehow refuses to be let go. Those who keep postulating it are avoiding the evidence of their senses (and I'm giving them credit for having 'senses'.)
What ever happened to observation as a part of the scientific method?
There have been 20-30 years of urban theorists telling everyone that they needed to be in the urban areas, that the future was everyone in an urban center, that we should build up, not out, and that we'd all be better for it. And for 40-50 years now, people have been listening and watching and deciding by their actions- the suburbs continue to grow. The farther out rings, the exurbs, continue to grow until the suburbs start hosting the large corporate offices and shopping centers and the exurbs then become the suburbs of the suburbs. The cities centers are no longer necessary and those who choose to live there choose to live there for whatever reasons they have, but that is their choice. Others are making other choices. And as it turns out, more people have chosen, and continue to choose to live near, but not in, an urban center. The suburbs offer that.
So- you can call them racist, or exclusionary, but if you actually go out to the suburbs and look at the homeowners and the business operators, you'll see that they come in all colors, religions, shapes, and sizes. You'll see that groups of people tend to follow their own group as they migrate further out, away from the cities. It is a human desire to live in a nice place, with some green space, perhaps a plot of land, easy access to shops, schools, entertainment, parks. And the ability to drive- because some people still love to drive.
Urban theorists tend to live in urban centers and think everbody thinks like they do, or they should.
The key difference between big city versus suburban life is property ownership. In the suburbs the ownership is clear. Suburbanites can clearly identify what is theirs and are willing to defend it.
So can we expect a follow up article, arguing for the application of Eminent Domain to Santa Barbara, The Hamptons etc., so that the joys of high density living can be applied to the uppermost tier of NYT readers, who might not know what they are missing? (Well, OK, Prince Harry, newly of Montecito, isn't exactly credentialed, but I'm sure everyone else is).
Taking time out from praising his Heroes who rip off lemonade stands and shoot 5 year olds point blank in the head, Howard offers this: "People from blue cities will gentrify red suburbs by dominating political power and flip the electoral college script. It's Califorinication on a grandeur scale."
Of course they will Howard.
Which is why every lefty talking head is screaming at everyone to please please please stay in the city.
I can see you really "thought" this one out.
A true "Howard-like" effort.
Okay, not everyone but a significant portion of humanity likes to strike a pose. In order to maximize the impact of your pose, you further need a stage to strike that pose and an audience to observe that pose. There's no better place for poseurs to live and congregate than great cities.....I don't think Shakespeare would have reached his full potential if he had stayed home in Stratford and gone into the glover trade. I live in the city. I'm not particularly a poseur (anymore), but I'm part of the audience, and I enjoy the show....There will always be cities and people who want to live in them.
The answer to our current problems isn’t to run away from the metropolis.
The answer is to throw the Democrats out of office whose foolish policies are turning the metropolis into dystopias. But that isn’t going to happen so running away is your second best bet.
The Left Should Support a different public health strategy for Covid in order to end the Bad-green trend to the suburbs.
The public health strategy used against covid is breaking the cities and sending people fleeing like poor little deluded rats into the suburbs. Suburbs are green but it is bad-green - like arsenic, like Scheele's Green. But people are going to toward bad-green because of covid. We could stop this migration to bad-green if we had the correct public health strategy.
There's two kinds of threats to public health:
population wide threats
threats to some high-risk group
Initially, it was thought that covid was going to be another 1918 Spanish flu - a population-wide major threat. Hence the lockdowns, phased re-openings and similar measures - all of which were population wide strategies. But it turned out that covid is a high-risk for a definite group - people over 70 with co-morbidities from which they are likely to die in the coming year. See the MacIver Report on deaths in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
So, when it was thought covid was a major population-wide threat like the Spanish flu public health policy makers recommended population-wide public health measures. Close the schools. Lockdown. Social distancing.
But now we see that helping high-risk populations through public health measures would be appropriate.
But Governor Evers, Governor Cuomo and others are keeping population-wide public health strategies in place. They are breaking the cities and causing children to suffer. Why?
Population-wide public health strategies are breaking the cities by ruining their economies through social distancing requirements. Cities cannot function when elevators can only move one person at a time. Only a suburb with one person or one family to a house and a car can work like that. Hence bad-green migration. But population-wide public health strategies are the wrong strategy for covid so the breaking of the cities serves no purpose.
Moreover the population-wide strategy is closing the schools - also for no real gain.
Children and their families are suffering from school closings - for nothing, for less than nothing, for persisting in a wrong strategy after it has been shown to be wrong.
Why doesn't Wisconsin switch to the correct high-risk strategy, explain why it's right, open the schools, open the businesses? Who is advising Governor Evers to harm Milwaukee (we lost all the DNC Covention business) and to harm the children by school closing and play restrictions? - for nothing.
Instead, we need to build better social support systems for people in cities so that urban life becomes healthier, safer and more sustainable.
So, I'm guessing de-funding the police fits the bill here?
If they move and keep their city address, can they vote twice?
Culture happens. It is an emergent phenomenon. Its details will develop on their own. This cannot be designed or engineered with goals in view. The effect of any social plan will be more a mass of unintended consequences even when given risks are apparent (and most will be unimagined in the planning stage).
Humans are crap at deliberately planning societies or even organizations. Most such things that work have the causality backwards.
That is one insight of the conservative state of mind.
Again, it’s the New York Fucking Times, so.....
Garbage
Thomas Moore created the word Utopia from the Greek for "no place."
Presumably the NYTimes crowd believes that's where anyone who doesn't fully agree with them should be allowed to live in peace.
If people move out of the cities, it will be much harder for Progressives to enrage them.
Lack of riots?
School choice?
Freedom of association?
These are not the elements of a rageful society.
So let me get this straight....cities which have become too expensive to live in for low and even middle income earners will now lose their highest wealth individuals en masse, vastly reducing the costs of real estate and simply the costs of living in the city. Thereby the "working class" can live there again, which will enable working class communities to come together again in cities and maybe, just maybe, low income college students and "artists."
And then cities will be cool again.
But of course that'll take 10-20 years of decline to get there and the writer really, really wants to maintain the current status quo of over-priced, over-taxed, poorly managed cities which are terrible to the working class to live in.
The absurdity of the NYT and their readership in one article. *They* are thinking of leaving the city for suburbia, so its now a Nationwide trend that EVERYONE is doing. Later, when the CV-19 is over, they'll be writing articles about how EVERYONE is moving back to "The City".
People have been moving out of "The City" since WW II. The reason most major cities have a large population is because (1) Black migration and (2) Post 1965 immigration. I notice that no one ever talks about how Asian NYC and SF have become. Its like its still 1990, and the only people who live in Big Cities are White Liberals and blacks.
Personally, I'm all in favor of New Yorkers, staying in New York. Why ruin other parts of the USA?
"20th century suburbia was not "Utopia." There were racially exclusionary policies, the houses were more expensive in reality than in theory, and people needed cars."
They actually aren't anywhere near as expensive as living in the city. So, actually, Utopia. With cars, and low crime.
Howard:
The poor white trash flyover Shitholes are long overdue a deep cleansing and makeover. Isn't Free market capitalism wonderful.
This is the left's explanation for Obama's AFFH attempt to move Section 8 rioters to suburbs where they could recreate the Bhopal culture of NY City and St Louis and Chicago.
This is supposedly a professor specializing in the history of Communal Societies?
Most American utopian projects fell apart due to grifters exploiting the resources of others -- ie. selling the same land plots to more than one person -- or productive community members being unable to sustain the large, poor families who showed up seeking aid. Others were weird sex cults, like Oenida, which separated children from their parents and sought to control reproduction in order to usher in an absolutist form of pure socialism.
The history of the suburbs is something entirely different.
This is supposedly a professor specializing in the history of Communal Societies?
Most American utopian projects fell apart due to grifters exploiting the resources of others -- ie. selling the same land plots to more than one person -- or productive community members being unable to sustain the large, poor families who showed up seeking aid. Others were weird sex cults, like Oenida, which separated children from their parents and sought to control reproduction in order to usher in an absolutist form of pure socialism.
The history of the suburbs is something entirely different.
I've lived in the largest city on earth, but it was incredibly well run. I've also lived in the suburbs for most of my life, as I do now.
Anyone who says the suburbs in the US are terrible places has never been to my neighborhood.
Yes, it took hard work and a little George Jefferson 'movin' on up' to get here, but it's worth it.
Arguing that I am responsible for the other people in my community. Well, I'm not. Especially if I have to sacrifice my safety and security for a bunch of strangers that don't value me and my contribution. That bunch of strangers includes: BLM, Antifa, and all the ne'er do well Communists and Socialists, plus the criminals and other miscreants.
Can you tell I've never placed any value on living in a city?
As if there weren’t great restaurants and excellent shopping in Greenwich, Bar Harbor, Sagaponick, Montclair and on and on,
People vote with their feet with their children at the front of their minds. Bring your rowdy fatherless kids to our school and we will pack up and press on. It isn’t worth it to stick around and try to fix what you have broken.
Come back Shane. Come BAAAAACK!
The suburbs are hell holes. Yet the wealthier, better educated are fleeing the cities for there.
The United States is a hell hole of systemic racism. Yet POC from across the globe are risking their lives and fortunes to get here even under illegal status.
'Tis a puzzle.
Other than a handful of academics, no one really thought the suburbs were Utopian. But they were safe, clean, manageable, not generally run by corrupt machines, with decent public schools and room for kids to run and play, and (by definition) close enough to downtown to go in for dinner and a show. City apartments are great for young people and old people, but in between a house and two cars make a lot of sense.
Joe Smith said...
"I've lived in the largest city on earth, but it was incredibly well run. I've also lived in the suburbs for most of my life, as I do now.
Anyone who says the suburbs in the US are terrible places has never been to my neighborhood."
Except that now, Madison has brought Chicago to the suburbs, as Dave Blaska has illustrated over and over. Case in point: Meadowood.
I can tell you fancy,
I can tell you plain:
You give something up
For everything you gain
I don't cotton to what lefty talking heads mutter on about which you seem to place mucho stock, Drago. In fact, I don't watch or listen to talking heads. You should try it, it will boost your free testosterone and put lead in your pencil.
My neighborhood in west Houston had apartment complexes just outside. One evening, a group of teens from one complex were walking down a nearby street and I heard one of them say, verbatim, "Y'all, this is my m...f'n hood and y'all better m...f'n move!" I thought, "Thank you very much, I believe I will." The 'burbs never needed to be Utopia. They just needed to provide a buffer between regular people and the above-described teens.
I'll take the false promises of Suburban Living against the dangerous false promises of Urban Existence any day of the week. There are recent videos of the latter available to review in abundance. I can watch them sitting on my back porch as I take in the counterpoint of forest, flowers, hummingbirds, browsing deer, and distant train whistles. I like my false promises better.
I have been picking Howard today, but that 10:22 comment was pretty good.
The nice thing is that America is huge and the numbers of these haters like Antifa are very small. So good luck with the project of preventing people from avoiding the tender ministrations of your latest government ordained justice program.
Part of a social support system is the maintenance of civil order so that people can be physically safe as they go about their daily business. Defunding the police knocks one of the props out from under the "social support system". Not that this twit at the NYT could or would recognize that.
Howard said...
People from blue cities will gentrify red suburbs
Yep
And they'll babble about that mean Trump putting one year olds in hotels, and get asked how one year olds made it to the border without their parents
Then They'll table about that damn Trump keeping the schools closed. And their neighbors will gently point out that Trump wants the schools open.
Then they'll wake up, realize they've been an idiot, and start voting Republican to protect what they have from teh Democrats who want to destroy it
Shorter version: We tried to create urban Utopias in big cities and that failed. So people fled to suburbia which also wasn't Utopia. So, we need the government to double down on trying to make Cities Utopia. (Make Cities Great Again!!)
The truly offensive thing about suburbia (and 'exurbia) to this writer is that hint of freedom and agency they imply. The natural undercurrent here is they need people in the cities, where it is implied that a shared and collective effort is needed to make them great. Thus stay in cities where huge government is fundamental to their functioning and your happiness. She tips here hand when she highlights the 'car dependent' nature of suburbia.
It's the NYT. Don't trust it. Despise and detest it. It's little dog, WaPoo, Too!
@MadTownGuy
Good point. But because we're responsible, reasonably hard-working and thrifty individual, we can just get up and move if we want.
I really like it here (except for the crazies who run the state), but once my wife was done working full-time we were probably going to leave anyway. It pisses me off because I was born here, but the taxes are outrageous and only getting worse.
Rich folks (or even semi-rich) have options, and we will be exercising ours.
Howard: "I don't cotton to what lefty talking heads mutter on about which you seem to place mucho stock, Drago."
And yet somehow, inexplicably, you repeat the lefty talking heads mutters with perfect fidelity around the clock and for months on end.
And when the lefty talking heads begin muttering things directly contradicting their previous mutterings you turn as if on cue and begin bleating the new mutterings.
Yes indeed. You are quite the "independent" thinker alright.
Tell us more about how the United States was really founded in 1619.
Howard takes time out from repeating lefty talking head muttering narratives to claim he doesn't repeat lefty talking head muttering narratives......after which he immediately returns to repeating lefty talking head muttering narratives....
....but "independently"....cuz he's a "free thinker".
LOL
He just "got there" all on his own. It's all a coincidence.
"And to this day, everyone who lives there is dependent on cars."
And city dwellers are dependent on mass transit. The difference here is that my car never goes on strike. How about your transit workers?
Well, that's one difference. There are others.
My car goes where I want, when I want. Does your mass transit do the same, or do you need to arrange your schedule around when you can get a ride? And does it drop you off at your destination, or do you have to walk a dozen blocks through the rain to get where you're going? In my car, I don't ever have to worry about a homeless person who hasn't bathed in a month sitting in the seat next to me. Or getting mugged. How about your transit? Could that happen there? I go to the market once a week and bring a dozen bags of groceries and such home in my car. How many bags can you carry by hand on a bus or subway ride? Certainly not that many so you'll be shopping after work each evening, won't you?
And you want to condescend to me about my "car dependency"? Meh.
Ridiculous. I live in the suburbs of a major city and commute into downtown for work. For the last several years, I've been trying to buy a house in-town to reduce my commute and be close to the restaurants and events I love. Demand and prices are high though, and I've been unable to do this - I've bid on houses, but lost to all cash bidders offering at or above asking price with no contingencies.
Since the pandemic, the shutdowns, the mostly peaceful riots, and the homeless issue in my downtown, I've been so happy to be in the peaceful suburbs where I know my neighbors, and I have close proximity to walking trails and the country. I drive into downtown a couple of times / week, so I see the actual problems close up.
I have renewed gratitude for my suburban life. Its pretty good out here. I've even started to renovate a little.
Very much on topic: THE SEVENTH MILLENNIUM: A Look at Life's Possibilities in the New Age Before Us, which I just published as a paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735316008
In a nutshell it's about the idea of factories in the countryside run on part-time jobs: the new lifestyle such factories would make possible, how they can be made to run at a profit, and the new kinds of towns that might develop around them.
But it's more than just an idea or even a cause; it's a plan based on Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State – a recipe for a new kind of Zionism in America in other words.
There's a website for fans at AmericanZionists.com
Makes me think:
"Please Br'er Rabbit..."
Ah crap.
Substitute Br'er Fox for Br'er Rabbit above.
Carry on.
I've lived in big cities and have enjoyed it. I certainly see why others like it too. But if the good parts of city living, bars, museums, restaurants, etc., are shut down, and the bad parts of city living, crime and crowding, are made worse, then why stay in a city?
I don’t understand the premise of the story. Suburbs aren’t perfect so we must do away with them? Yeah, let’s make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Maybe a suburban house was more expensive (although the article specifically refers to the Usonian house), but with a suburban home you got: more room than a two-room walkup; a yard; lower crime; no large, corrupt political machine running the city; less squalor; modern conveniences like electric appliances and hot water. Oh, but, quelle horreur (you might want to move your hand near your pearls and position yourself above your fainting couch before you read this next part), you must buy a car! (That’s a feature, not a bug, in my book!)
A house gives the average man equity. Sure, you need to be able to handle small home repair jobs yourself, but post WWII men had no problem with that. Thirty years and you’re living rent free.
Citizens fled cities for very valid reasons. But our elites know what is best for us.
Humans are crap at deliberately planning societies or even organizations. Most such things that work have the causality backwards.
That is one insight of the conservative state of mind.
buwaya, if I weren't a happily married woman...
One of the most cogent arguments for conservatism I've ever read. I've usually expressed it as, "Conservatism is about keeping what has been shown to work," but my statement, pragmatic (and true) as it may be, fails to capture the generality of both poor judgment and bright-eyed optimism (some might term it "arrogance") that characterizes us humans.
I hope the mostly peaceful rioters show up in Howard's neighborhood.
I hope he gets what he wants in abundance.
I want him to be happy.
Molotov cocktails all around.
So I guess Newitz is now underwater on her overpriced Brooklyn condo. I hope she knows how to code.
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