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On a five hour trip down the east coast of the U.S. (Interstate-95), my wife and I ran into bumper to bumper traffic. It seemed to stretch from the middle of Virginia to the middle of North Carolina. We got off and zipped along the side roads. (Quick, name a town or city between Richmond/Petersburg and Raleigh/Durahm.) Off the interstate we were forced to slow down for a dozen small town main streets. They all looked liked they had been moth balled since the Great Depression and James Agee. I’m going back to explore the corners of those two states this summer.
Many itulip threads are taking on a doomsday flavor…communities creating their own currency, I’ll move to Panama, etc.
I find it ironic that Kunstler now seems more constructive and calmer.
http://www.kunstler.com/
“The attempted re-start of revolving debt consumerism is an exercise in futility. We've reached the limit of being able to create additional debt at any level without causing further damage, additional distortions, and new perversities of economy (and of society, too). We can't raise credit card ceilings for people with no ability make monthly payments. We can't promote more mortgages for people with no income. We can't crank up a home-building industry with our massive inventory of unsold, and over-priced houses built in the wrong places. We can't ramp back up the blue light special shopping fiesta.”
“But there are scores of places like Montgomery, Alabama, and thousands of traditional main street small towns that are sitting out there waiting to be re-activated. We need to do this much more than we need to build new freeways to the beach. Suburbia is not going to be abandoned overnight, but we have got to arrive at a consensus about rehabilitating our forsaken small cities and small towns. The New Urbanists have gathered, organized, and codified all the principle and methodology needed to carry out this campaign. This should be their moment. Mr. Obama and his team should get with the program.”
Many itulip threads are taking on a doomsday flavor…communities creating their own currency, I’ll move to Panama, etc.
I find it ironic that Kunstler now seems more constructive and calmer.
http://www.kunstler.com/
“The attempted re-start of revolving debt consumerism is an exercise in futility. We've reached the limit of being able to create additional debt at any level without causing further damage, additional distortions, and new perversities of economy (and of society, too). We can't raise credit card ceilings for people with no ability make monthly payments. We can't promote more mortgages for people with no income. We can't crank up a home-building industry with our massive inventory of unsold, and over-priced houses built in the wrong places. We can't ramp back up the blue light special shopping fiesta.”
“But there are scores of places like Montgomery, Alabama, and thousands of traditional main street small towns that are sitting out there waiting to be re-activated. We need to do this much more than we need to build new freeways to the beach. Suburbia is not going to be abandoned overnight, but we have got to arrive at a consensus about rehabilitating our forsaken small cities and small towns. The New Urbanists have gathered, organized, and codified all the principle and methodology needed to carry out this campaign. This should be their moment. Mr. Obama and his team should get with the program.”
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