Like it Glenn! Thanks!!
On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Glenn moyer wrote: > Here is a very short excellent essay by a landscape architect in Boston, > Privatizing the Public Realm. I hope some middle class consumers still have > the ability to read an entire page. > > Our city hall plaza belongs to the center city district, the parkway is a > venue for exclusive Budweiser festivals, and Clark Park will now be Tony > West's beer garden. It's hard to know if more than a couple of people out > there have started to connect the dots between school closures, the AVI > corporate windfall, the gentrifications, the police state, and the > privatization of all public spaces; with the shift to corporate > totalitarianism. ( The introduction of university sponsored censorship, > several years ago, has had the planned chilling effect on this list and > political speech in the neighborhood. ) > > If the bewildered local gentry ever starts to wake up to the real world, they > will need to understand how their abandonment of principles was studied by > elite business universities, like the Wharton University, and signaled middle > class readiness for corporate enslavement! Our upscale village paradise was > a very important pilot study! > > I've blown the whistle on this privatization process since the late 1990s, > but most of the neighbors were busy laughing at my tin foil hat and the > incessant ad hominem attacks from our "community leaders." > > I hope some locals can wake up and understand the reality of the world they > thought they wanted. >
