Urban renewal is often an euphemism for kicking out the poor (eminent domain!) & building soulless concrete monoliths. But man oh man did Nelson Rockefeller outdo everyone else in Albanyhttps://intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-america-albany-again-and?r=hjryt …
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Replying to @Chris_arnade
I'm not a trad LARPer who seriously wants to bring back royalty ... but I do note that in a sense, we never really got rid of it. The dynamic of our pseudo royalty is at LEAST as bad as the dynamic of the real thing.
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Replying to @MorlockP
At least in old monarchies the plebes could take consultations that they were plebes by divine design & not because they were just losers who didn’t test well.
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and, conversely, I think that the elites were, perhaps, more cognizant that their position was an accident of fate, and not judgement that they Deserved To Rule because of their virtues (a hypothesis without hard data to support it, I admit)
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