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Apr 28, 2006 22:59

Ah, suburbia, my loathing for you knows no bounds. What is suburbia? It is the most artificial, synthetic imitation of nature ever created (and, of course, I don't believe in exaggerating). Because I'm a Baudelaire fan, I'll analyse suburbia from his pov. I'm going to argue that he'd think of it as a hideous crime against humanity. If the synthetic is good, and the natural is bad, and the synthetic is meant to not serve the natural, then the idea of suburbia (artificially reimagining the natural) is horrific. See, one could argue that the worst and "worst" parts of popular music would never have existed without suburbia. To pull a Marx, the suburban ideal is a result of the bourgeois inability to truly know what's best. Throw off the oppressive yoke of the rat race rulers! Suburbanites of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but the chains of "comfort" and a world of living to win. Long live la vie boheme! Death to the yuppie oppressors!

Also, I'm bored because I'm done and no one else is, and I can't walk everywhere because everything's all suburban and way too spread out.

Plus, I'm über-pretentious university boy, I know, I know.

(please note the user pic: an old soviet propaganda poster saying I-don't-know-what, though I like to call it the Russian Rosie the Riveter)

communurban, anti-capitalisuburban

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