IMHO, Minnesota does not practice liberalism, but fascist social control
under the guise of liberalism. The "welfare" institutions that dominate
neighborhoods like the one I live in -- Phillips -- are little more than
other forms of policing organizations demanding of their clients social
conformity. If that cannot be achieved, then the institutions enforce
isolation of the poor and "different". Now,the attempt is to disperse the
poor into a much thinner solution, a sort of social Brownian movement,
dissipating concentrations of groups so they cannot coalesce and develop
real political power. The City belongs to the developers. They create high
waste projects which in effect lay\under money upwards. The middle class is
the new slave class, monitored and maintain ed to fill the office
buildings, buy the many high waste consumables available to corporate
workers ( such as bottled water, magazines, snack foods, poor quality
"meals" etc.
Block E will be a temple to wasteful consumption (no[products produced--
time is consumed with meaningless entertainment purchased at high price just
like the meaningless neo-tribal football and other sports games (no local
heroes anymore, just ever purchased and ever exploited stars moved from
city to city, purchased by the highest bidders-- as in the film by socialist
director, Ripley Scott --[and you thought it was an action adventure film
dincha]
To repeat. The city is no longer a place of creativity or soc ial bonding
o r community politics-- it is a money machine and we have whores a
plenty in our local government selling their souls and ours to keep the
(literally) God damned thing going. It doesn't matter who THINKS they're in
charge-- The Republinazis or the Republicrats -- both parties are just false
constructs fronting the same insane machine.
And the Greens and other independent parties are variations on the same
theme. None are revolutionary; they are all simply reformers. Too little
and probably too late to make any difference
The human world needs a complete re-design. Not a make-over, ala Oprah, but
a complete tear-down to its foundations and a rebuild. A city like
Minneapolis can do it because no one "out there" really could care less
about it. Its isolation and unique cultural character makes it essentially
worthless to the power centers in other parts of the country. Minneapolis
acts like its the little brother of a big Star, always trying to prove
itself by copying the brother's moves. Well, the brother is one evil SOB ;
its time for this City to rethink itself as a whole system, use the
incredible creative resources and knowledge it has and really become that
Shining City on the Hill.
That will never happen with the butt kissing clowns we have in the present
city government. IMHO, of course.
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Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Suburban Fright
> While we're all smugly congratulating ourselves on how diversity-tolerant
we
> are relative to those rubes in the burbs and the sticks, why is it that
the
> disparity in black arrests, the draconian anti-gang measures, and the
> flagrant segregation of our neighborhoods is so par for the course is this
> oh-so-liberal state?
>
> Britt Robson
> Lyndale
>
