@sickburnbro @jb @monsterislandcolonizer I'm thinking of an even more fundamental problem. Cities aren't something we thought up in 1968 as a way to store the National Negro Reserves. It's an innovation that created civilization and progress by allowing specialization and encouraging interdependence. And from that we gained roads, communications, protection, and a number of other things that everybody takes for granted.

The man whose kneejerk reaction to "what if we lose the cities" is "but I don't live in a city" has a serf mentality. He cannot see beyond the horizon, and his natural place is to be kept on a plot of land that he works for the benefit of other men who can see beyond the horizon.

I understand the individual who can't see anything reasonable to do to save the cities. America washed its hands of them with the automobile, and it's a rare person that can see that the utter dependence we have on the internal combustion engine is a weakness, not a strength.