it was bad then
Everyone here knows it but many choose to ignore it; Europeans can scarcely comprehend much less believe it, but our major cities are urban wasteland hellholes. Seriously, I'd email pals in the UK from Detroit in '98 and I don't think they believed me.
No, fools. The urban, asset-stripped carnage of the Motor City seemed like hyperbole, mind blogging perhaps to them, wild exaggeration. But no, I was pulling punches. Here's Detroit:
And here's Philly:
Beautiful, isn't it. Here's Chicago:
And let's not forget the nation's Capitol, DC:
But perhaps you're wondering what happened to Gary Indiana:
And on, and on, and on. Everywhere you look our cities are decaying into urban, hellhole wastelands. It's America's dirty little secret if you like, but not to worry, we have trans bathrooms, rainbow hurray!
That aside, do you think the outward and visible reflects the inward and spiritual?
LSP
