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
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