I am currently in Hellpic.twitter.com/VesjiEEi9L
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i am now squatting outside smoking some Turkish Silvers. (The cigarette store was, surprisingly, clean and well ordered.) Recently I have seen a middle-aged white couple maybe living out of their car and yelling at each other; an older tatterdemalion wandering and shouting;
a man opening his trunk and empty beer bottles spilling out; a discarded cardboard sign asking for money (had he given up?); a man wandering blasting obscure rap most people are older and white and less "dressing" than "covering themselves"
I am not writing this thread to mock or complain about any of this. I'm just a bit surprised at the state of things. There is a strong Coming Apart vibe to the neighborhood and what feels like an evaporation of human and social capital, portending something awful
if you were curious what was happening with the cardboard box in the first picturehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1411013364625543169?s=19 …
oof. hadnt seemed cost-effective to me but this makes sensehttps://twitter.com/BiskyRusiness/status/1411014623269212160?s=19 …
The physical geography of American suburbs is low-value. The reality is that if most places vanished in a calamity, no one would miss them or rebuild them.
The strip mall, the stroad you probably had to cross, the token and perfunctory acknowledgement of pedestrians with the world's least inviting benches in the middle of slip, lanes, intersections, and parking lots: Not one tear would be shed for them when the disappear.
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