there is so much here
sometimes, i want to cry equal parts from happiness at the discovery of things -- small things, right? historical anecdotes that will mean nothing to anyone not reading along -- and from the mind-bending horror of what those things mean. sometimes this project makes me feel so helpless, that the only thing i can accomplish is to articulate the one thing no one is taught to see.
sure, the dissatisfied ones, we grow up in the Burbs and leave disgusted with the insulation & the aristocracy experiment our parents bore us to, but we can never put our fingers on how FUCKED UP the histories of our towns are. because we're never taught them. inaccurately, if at all.
then another part of me kicks in, as it did in the middle of that paragraph there, and i wonder -- if James Howard Kunstler is right, and we're headed toward an inverted America, where the poor are packaged out to the suburbs where they'll never be able to afford the transportation back into the city to work, and the rich, currently suburban, scumfucks will overtake the urban low-income housing, bleaching them into unaffordable condos -- i wonder if any of this will be relevant. and that's a sharp, sharp question for anyone to ask.
of course, it's supplemented by the occasional wonder if the Burbs (at least in Boston) are destined not to be reinhabited, but instead plunged under the Atlantic. that's comforting, right?
sure, the dissatisfied ones, we grow up in the Burbs and leave disgusted with the insulation & the aristocracy experiment our parents bore us to, but we can never put our fingers on how FUCKED UP the histories of our towns are. because we're never taught them. inaccurately, if at all.
then another part of me kicks in, as it did in the middle of that paragraph there, and i wonder -- if James Howard Kunstler is right, and we're headed toward an inverted America, where the poor are packaged out to the suburbs where they'll never be able to afford the transportation back into the city to work, and the rich, currently suburban, scumfucks will overtake the urban low-income housing, bleaching them into unaffordable condos -- i wonder if any of this will be relevant. and that's a sharp, sharp question for anyone to ask.
of course, it's supplemented by the occasional wonder if the Burbs (at least in Boston) are destined not to be reinhabited, but instead plunged under the Atlantic. that's comforting, right?