I think Craig has his History mixed with Sci-Fi.or fantasy. Though I happen to agree with his analogy. Much of the suburbs could care less about the City. They have their shops, their bars, their movie theaters and quite honestly have them more convenient placed than many City neighborhoods. The very idea that they need Minneapolis or even think of Minneapolis other than with distaste is foolish. For many suburbanites Minneapolis is little more than a curiosity that you use as a bad example for teaching your children about the bad things in life.
What they do not have in Minneapolis and St. Paul is Community, but then Minneapolis tries as much and as hard as possible to kill that. Suburbs do not have walkability, but then neither does Minneapolis if you take away the police that make it safe to walk. (Our Council not addressing public safety and mishandling this whole police negotiation thing is something to boggle the mind.) I live in Minneapolis because it has more community and heart than the suburbs do, but I do not mistake the fact that those who live in the suburbs have different values and could care less about such things. St. Paul actually has even more flavors of community and old city atmosphere than Minneapolis, but I ended up in Minneapolis and built my community here, so it is where I am stuck. Sort of like getting married, you do not get a divorce because one of you is getting older, (because both of you are). Same with the City I have chosen. Though sometimes I do look wistfully at a different one, but still they are someone else's and I come home happily to MINE. It is why I get so mad at the bunglers down town who are attempting to kill our City. Ah well, the old girl lived through Stenvig, Hofstede, Fraser, and Sales-Belton, so I am sure she will live through the present dark arrogance posing as beautiful enlightenment that haunts the old castle downtown in Middle Earth. Jim Graham, Ventura Village >"Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. - Zen proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Suburb Bashing! Fun for all > In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:26:12 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I love this Middle Earth Kingdom wisdom city folk like to preach upon. Next > > the suburbanites will have to KowTow. If you don't catch the Chinese > > history reference, too bad. > > > > That's MIDDLE KINGDOM, Craig (what the characters for China translate into). > Middle Earth is somewhere else (and really far from here, I'm afraid). > > Linda Mann > Kingfield > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. > 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. > > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
