This is a good introduction to the problems with suburbia. The speaker has a political agenda, but still makes several observations worth considering.
NB: Some obscene language. No blasphemy, else I wouldn’t have posted it, but several f-bombs.
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Our cities are so bad, though, that they’re fit only for blacks and immigrants.
The suburbs are bad, but they’re better than the cities. The way to tell the suburbs are better than the cities is Section 8 housing. That’s the way our overlords punish us for leaving the hellholes, exporting blacks to the suburbs, to utterly ruin them, too.
Even if you don’t buy Kunstler’s main premise – that we’re running out of cheap fuel with no alternatives on the horizon – you have to admit that building modern civilization around the automobile has created some butt-ugly places.
I’m a Kunstler fan despite his toilet mouth. He makes a lot of sense.
Axe Head — true, there is no way the American city can be restored unless the Negro problem is first solved. However, we need to ponder the aesthetic in parallel to solving that problem. If today the cities were made safe and pleasant for Aryans again, I fear we would just convert them into seas of discount warehouses (in the old factories) and Wal-marts (built on the ruins of the public housing). Curing ourselves of this sickness can begin before the other problem is addressed.
Mr. Gerard — I thought the pix were worth a thousand words in this case, and Kunstler had some biting satire that was worth while. However, if there were a sudden scarcity of basic resources, it would lead to widespread starvation, not to creating pleasant cities. Indeed, the cities might move on to the next stage: ghost towns. Conversely, it is depressing to think that creating beauty must needs diminish with increasing wealth. One might think the opposite could be the case.
TJH, you are right, there is no need to cling to the Total Ugliness of our urban/suburban/exurban landscape, and even realizing the problems of suburbia may lead to realization of greater problems of the Negro. I have realized that myself this way.
Kunstler, good Jewish Leftist that he is, will not grasp that whites moved to the suburbs to escape the hells that Leftist overlords made of our cities. To get away from crime, bad schools, wrecked property, the hallmarks of the Negro world. Could you imagine if he said that? Does he really believe that people moved to the suburbs because the suburbs are so beautiful and wonderful?? No, they are an escape from a worse place.
Never mind the staggering wealth that has been lost as white-built areas are negrified (that is, ruined). Start with the cities, and move outward, and there is a progressive destruction of wealth. In the end we’ll live in a Hooverville far outside cities, and our overlords will still be colonizing negroes into our beloved Hoovervilles.
What a load of despair!! Including comments. Especially comments. You can write off the speaker as just another ranter, there are many. But, come on people, is this helpful? Get out and do something, and than tell us how you helped!
Jim,
The point of posting the video was not to cause despair.
As for the other comments, they are mostly about an angle I was not intending to pursue. I am interested in the urban/architectural/agrarian issues the talk brings up or suggests.
Hi Mike,
It is interesting down here is South Carolina, as far as this subject is concerned. Its hard to describe, but you see shops just sorta placed in the middle of nowhere and half of them are empty, or a large section of shops so far off the main road its no wonder that they are mostly empty. I can drive here literally side by side with the main road in the shop parking lots and never come out on the main road till I am past the light I want to turn onto and go home, thus I stay out of “traffic” so to speak. The other is the large parcels of land that still defy this urban cancer with real estate signs on them in the middle of all the so called development.
I have been coming down to this area for 9 years and I have seen on the major roads growth busting out, and now with the economy some for sale signs in the same area for shops and even more so the big factories that promised jobs and are closed. Or the story of the farmer who had a great deal of land around him bought up, but he and his farm in the middle refuses to sell because he loves to and loves his farm.
I would like to see a return to the building that I think this speaker is trying to promote.
Also it is strange that when the community gets away from these things, sooner or later some “driven shop owner” or “vision filled developer” stumble into his idea and the area is a hit and draws people.
thanks,
s.e. hoffmeister