On May 8, 8:47 am, jane <
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> On May 7, 11:42 am, "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> Philosopher" <
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> > That's a nice way to describe life in America. You often wonder
> > "Where's the people?" as you walk in America. Buses are totally
> > unreliable. Then there's NYC, often called the Asphalt Jungle, a place
> > where the "monkey within" (we all have a monkey within) can have fun
> > and socialize. It depends what feels "natural" to you, but you often
> > find yourself in a cage given the wrong conditions. And that's bad,
> > real bad. Actually, it's time for me to get out...
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> > On May 7, 2:38 am, Martin Edwards <
big_mart...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > > On 06/05/2013 18:07, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > > Philosopher wrote:
> > > > On May 6, 2:31 am, Martin Edwards <
big_mart...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >> On 05/05/2013 22:46, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > > >> Philosopher wrote:
> > > >>> On May 3, 2:49 am, Martin Edwards <
big_mart...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >>>> On 01/05/2013 22:03, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble
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> > > >>>> Philosopher wrote:
> > > >>>>> Or the UK is an epigone of America. Two parties with small variations
> > > >>>>> of the same.
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> > > >>>> Yes, I very much agree with that.
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> > > >>>> Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must
> > > >>>> painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman
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> > > >>> Very little variation and yet they hate each other with a passion?
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> > > >>> This side of the Atlantic "liberal" is worse than gay.
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> > > >>> I would be afraid to say such word out loud. If I were to come out of
> > > >>> the closet I think it would be safe to admit being a liberal in NYC.
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> > > >> Yes, I think so. The Law and Order stable is generally liberal and
> > > >> Lennie (pbuh) was sometimes suspected of reactionary tendencies.
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> > > > Well, what counts is that the parks are free of homeless and the
> > > > streets free of litter.
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> > > > That's the problem in my reactionary town, mostly corruption. Though I
> > > > think that's a bipartisan issue.
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> > > Could you identify it? I'm interested in that kind of thing. While NY
> > > looks like what Europeans think of as a city, I found in, eg, Louisiana,
> > > that the cities are not really cities but collections of buildings.
> > > Lafayette, Lake Charles and even Baton Rouge do not seem busy at any
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> > I said it last summer: "If you hate people, you'll love America --
> > except if you live in NYC."
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> > The sprawl atomizes people (what a fantastic word). People are
> > naturally SOCIAL until they get behind the wheel of the automobile.
> > The only friendly vehicle that could traverse a city (another nice
> > word) without destroying communities is the bicycle. Public
> > transportation too, but that requires some burning of gas and a lot of
> > patience in a spread out city. Buses can't really adapt to your route
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> > Last summer I landed 100 miles from NYC, in a little town called
> > Woodbourne and I thought of Heaven and Hell. Absolutely beautiful but
> > absolutely nothing to do. No trails to hike, something the Europeans
> > enjoy as well. NYC is different. There are trails not far from the
> > city or at least as close as being practical. Central Park is a nice
> > getaway in the middle of the Urban Jungle. The rest of America is a
> > DESERT for the most part. Parks are full of homeless in my area, so
> > that's something to avoid. You see few people and when you find it's
> > often the wrong people. An Oasis is hard to find.
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> > Hey, I got my nice desert cap...
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> I was just in NYC and I would have to say that you have the scenario
> the wrong way around; NYC is the desert. I didn't see one blade of
> grass, one pant, one tree. What I did see was a lot of sand, rocks and
> limestone intermixed (concrete). When it rained, the water did not
> penetrate into the ground, but rather flowed off of the surface and
> was directed away from the city; the ground underneath was dry and
> arid. The inhabitants don't eat food or drink water from this desert
> area; both have to be imported from the plush and fertile areas
> surrounding this desert.
The sprawl has taken over farmland all over this nation and we find an
ever growing trend to import food. The trend here is more freeways and
parking lots.
And they don't grow food in the sprawl. It's a wasteland, with few
signs of life. There's a trend to build "liveable communities," but
that's only for the trendy.
The rest live in the desert.