Greetings Economists,
On Jun 25, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
CB: Why not cut back drastically on the need for commuting, by
thoroughly organizing housing and work in walkably close proximity ?
Walking is healthy , too. Then there are bicycles , too, horse drawn
carriages even. Use trains, trucks and cars ( and sailboats and
rowboats) for distant vacations and hauling raw materials and means of
production , mainly. Parochialism would be avoided by the world wide
web, rotating work-home locations systematically over several years,
sports, art troupes, vacations, cultural exchange.
Doyle;
Well exactly, This implies a radical restructuring of the city.
Lets look at it differently, aren't we really saying what is
equalitarian commune going to look like? And how to build it? Not
exactly a party like proposal, a culture like proposal.
For example, culture has certain foundations of connection, language,
mental work, physical appearance, and that's it. All the rest,
material objects, is only what it is by being connected. One form of
failed effort to unite everything by language were early efforts by
the U.S. military to create 'universal' translators in the 1950s. But
that general sort of demand is still alive in any sort of big radical
cultural project.
As the Chinese show what is distinctly socialist about culture that
truly is socialist rather than generated by capitalist material
mechanisms? The connection between people, the lack of class
connection. So a radical new city commune might once again take a
radical look at class connection.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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