Kunstler rants, but his descriptions of air travel, suburban sprawl ("crudscape"), and other outrages (such as the eyesore of the month) can be fun.
K.
"B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
So it's a bit like a Thomas Kinkade painting. "There is even a Thomas Kinkade-themed community of homes, 'The Village at Hiddenbrooke,' outside of Vallejo, California," says WIkipedia -- a nostalgia for a time that never really existed but which the American popular psyche is so good at inventing. -B.
Carl Remick wrote:
"[Best article on the Iraq war I've seen in a while.]
Living in a Fantasy At Home and Abroad
These places are better than simple gated communities; these are gated communities of the mind and imagination, the final step out of the 21st century into timelessness, into never-never land, a sweet and safe place which did not exist in any of the wonderful back-thens but have become such a large part of the American here and now. What a strange situation: a backward-peddling nation, unable to look at its present, much less deal with contemporary problems, physically constructing a series of back-lot movie sets for itself to live in.
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