Some Scribblings

Buildings are the shoe of a society.

Both leave a footprint and both interrupt your connection to the ground. Not inherently a bad thing per se, but laden with consequences unseen and unconsidered.

The problem of Charlie Kirk's interpretation is an inability to think past the political connotations. We've all been there, it's the only place in town to buy domestically manufactured punditry. And you can't have cheap Chinese made stuff. It breaks as soon as you open the box.

But take "liberal" or any common synonym of "not Republican" out of the equation and it seems patently obvious that buildings disrupt that connection, and tall buildings do so in the same way high heels do; glamorously but extensively.

This is why (and it took me until today to realize this) you can have a city that is both increasingly unaffordable and increasingly unappetizing. Those high end units in high floor count edifices come at a cost, but you are sequestered from the clamor of outdoor life. Once you get past the buzzer door.

The unseen cost is the connection to the land. Not having any experience of NYC, of course I wouldn't grasp how a block gets less affordable the less you want to be on it after dark. To me, that defeats the purpose of living somewhere. The worst living situation I ever had was right off Aurora where you really did not want to go galavanting off the the local mart after dusk. If nothing sketchy happened on the way, you're only going to the AM/PM on 85th. Sketchiness is fated to ensue at some point.

Value, of course, is relative. I value quiet neighborhoods with reasonably sized houses, but I also value living within range of a city environ. More people who also value proximity to city environs also value the relative privacy of a fifth floor walk-up over the troublesome social demands of having a property line to fret and a sidewalk to clear of leaves and snow. Or garbage from the local itinerant urchin. I could scarce compete. Not without a lot more money at my disposal at any rate.

But the recent free-for-all with zoning codes is most of the issue I'm up against. The vested interests in Seattle still own all the hoity-toit hauses of Capitol Hill, but now THEY have to compete with up and coming vested interests who value density over any vaguely fascistic notions like "connection to the land". That, by the way, is where your parking went; zoned out of acceptable discourse.

I really only wish we'd gotten to try the shoe on before we bought a pair (on Amazon of course). Not only are they a little tight, we don't have a thing to go with them.

Energy independence is a married couple: America be like "Honey, we HAVE all these proven reserves in the closet!" And America also like "But none of that is the RIGHT oil.. Let's just see what Saudi Arabia has on sale today.."

Anyone is totally forgiven for not being aware, cos Liz Cheney vs. Trump and all. But the world has actually gotten a lot scarier since Trump was president and that's an accomplishment. Like, this totally is the biggest terrorist attack in 20 years and do we HAVE a president RN? Visiting hours cut off for the day already? Sleepy need his oatmeal?

Well, thank God WE west coast based. When they come for US, it will be our submarine base one county over and we should go pretty quick.