Herding Us into Urban Death

A few years ago I noted my displeasure with urban living. That is not to say I hate going downtown. I’m drawn by the same thing which draws everyone else. I’ll never be so spiritual I don’t suffer temptations. But it is a temptation for something which is not good, not good for anyone.

Yet this is precisely what TPTB want for us. Not simply the radical greens who want to preserve all the open spaces for their elitist enjoyment of nature, but the very soul of Satan and his destruction of mankind demands we be herded into urban sardine cans. There is something in it to sucker just about every human living, and I’m sure you can cite your own list of perceived benefits.

I’ve seen cities done right, and it’s rare to find it here in America. In Europe, for example, there are some examples where a city ought to be, working to offer what few genuine benefits urban density can. The primary one is concentration of markets for certain goods. Consider a sliding scale of goods, some used daily, some purchased more rarely. A city permits a market density which encourages the investment in producing more rarely purchased items which may nonetheless make life better (think: durable goods). The density of labor markets encourages specialization and efficiency, and allows some to extend their rare talents. None of these things are inherently evil, but we must admit it also encourages vice at the same time.

People who remain together in a social structure for any length of time develop traditions and a culture of ideals. In God’s plans for fallen mankind, culture inhibits some vices due to a legacy of wisdom built up over generations. It also gives people something to live for, something intangible which justifies some of the tangibles. Having an identity brings meaning to human existence. Mixing of societies naturally causes friction, but also a certain drift in adopting new elements in culture. Profligate mixing of too many at once means certain death of culture.

Here in America our only identity is a lack of one. We destroyed the indigenous culture and brought nothing useful to replace it. Instead, we have careered down the slope of decadence by stripping away what little good may have been available from each cultural invasion and keeping only the worst. We do have some select islands of decent cultural background here and there, but nothing which gives our nation an identity. Indeed, we do not at all meet the definition of “nation.” Instead, we have this thin veneer of materialism with every possible variation of greed and hedonism possible. Our cities are not alive with culture, but are places where cultures go to die, sinking in to depravity.

This nasty situation is no accident. It may not have a human intelligence driving it, but it certainly has a demonic one. We build our cities in the worst possible places, taking up valuable agricultural space because we value only the dollar price, not alternative uses. Alternatively, we build them in places where they are utterly unsustainable.

By no means am I any shade of green, but it doesn’t take a false Earth Mother religion to see we have been abysmally stupid in our heedless development and profligate waste of resources. Human life is most sustainable when thinly scattered in small clumps. Greens want to herd people more tightly into cities, when that is the worst possible idea. Discarding thousands of years of human history and wisdom from ancient times, we have created some artificial notions of what constitutes human good, and are suddenly at the end of all the worst Western Civilization could possibly produce.

We lack the cultural basis for acting wisely when decisions are made, so people naturally follow their shallow, hedonistic and greedy inclinations in just about every facet of our national life. What few transcendent notions we claim are devoid of life because there is nothing behind them. They were stolen as mere baubles from better cultures, without keeping the meaning of them. So now we find ourselves in a situation where the only way to fix things is destroy it all and let it rest awhile, then restarting on a much saner basis.

What chances would you give of that happening? America is doomed. When the necessities of life start running out, there will be riots and eventually wars as people demand what they cannot have. We are so mighty against other nations, but will soon be destroyed from within. Our own governments at every level are no wiser than the fools hiding in the alley injecting poisons in themselves for a passing empty euphoria. This is America.