Re: Let’s Build
On Oct 14, 2006, at 4:09 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
“Wow, James, have you spent much time touring the U.S. landscape, what Kunstler calls the geography of nowhere? It’s soul-destroyingly
hideous.”If you mean that Americans are hideous, I cannot agree with you. I
read the news of 300 000 000 Americans as a good thing. And where
else should they live but in houses?
No I meant the physical landscape. Lots of Americans are very fat,
but we’re not uglier than other people, and a scopophile can have a
lot of fun on the streets of many American cities. And I’m not a
population-phobe either. I was referring to the endless parade of
hideous strip malls, condo developments, exurban big box stores
plopped down in the middle of nowhere, etc. Hideous, alienating, and
horribly wasteful.
Doug