PRICE REDUCED! . . . . On the road in North America.

SUBURBIA—on the way out!


The basic idea of suburbia, it seems to me, is the idea of escape.
We want to break away from the noise of the city and move
closer to the idea of the bucolic countryside. (I give emphasis
purposefully to the word idea here. That is because we are not
largely dealing with actual facts or realities, but rather merely
mental images of what we believe cities are like, and what we
believe the countryside is like, not how they actually are.) But
what has been created in both Europe and the US, at least in
as far as I’ve experienced it, are highly abstract, linear environments
which might be typified by the lack of three essentials: First: daily,
direct, physical interactions; Second: organic, walkable, spatial
interconnections, Third: most-importantly, natural centers of
every kind.

Indeed, instead of Suburbia, a more honest epithet or descriptor
might be Barrens,—a place where nothing wholesome and natural
can flourish and grow. For they are spiritual wastelands. A good
place for a child to awaken and develop its talents and intelligence,
to develop a sense of the commons and of place? I think not.

Why? For the simple reason that suburbia has been designed not
for human , but rather for mechanical movements, especially those
of cars and the efficient distribution of corporate goods. Everything
else is an afterthought. That is,—if we are honest...

And now, as the sign says, PRICE REDUCED. Who would not
want to get out of this place. More escape? Yes, for those who have
the money, more flight, more escape. But when one wave of
getaway crashes into another fleeing the same mess, but from
an opposing direction, what then?

| see also from my Metaphysical Miniatures, a
subdivision of Picture/Poemes:

THE NOISE OF THE WORLD

WATER DROPS

ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING INTELLIGENCE &
MECHANICAL INTELLEC

RHYTHM OF CHANGE . . .

LINE & CURVE

ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIMIT & CONTROL

THE THREE CHOASES . . .

KEEP OFF!

WARNING!

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