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Shut Up: Pay More: This What You Voted For. Why You Don't See Me At San Francisco's Hall Of Justice, David D. Butler
Shut Up: Pay More: This What You Voted For. Why You Don't See Me At San Francisco's Hall Of Justice, David D. Butler
David D. Butler
Urban violence, much of it politically motivated, has driven the taxpaying Middle Class into the suburbs. This has left only the tax eating poor and the tax avoiding rich in the big cities. This has resulted in urban bankruptcy in Detroit and even in California with its gifts of the technological Gold Rush, the Pacific Ocean, and the Sierra Nevada and Santa Lucia Mountains. The poor are more issolated than ever confined to the functional equivalent of no go zones. They speak a differenct language, dress differently, and sell drugs until they are caught and caged, providing good pay and …
"You Must Remember This:" Nothing Lasts A Hundred Years, David D. Butler
"You Must Remember This:" Nothing Lasts A Hundred Years, David D. Butler
David D. Butler
Much of what any given generation thinks of as "natural," is, in fact, the result of a prevoious generation's civil engineering projects. Medieval French peasants used to say that mythical giants built the Roman acquiducts of Southern France, because the notion that mere humans could have constructed such systems was simply beyond their post Black-Death conception.
"You Must Remember This:" Nothing Lasts A Hundred Years, David D. Butler
"You Must Remember This:" Nothing Lasts A Hundred Years, David D. Butler
David D. Butler
This 827 word essay speaks for itself. Even more pared down, it argues that much of what we think about as "natural," is the product of human design. Using Northern California's Crystal Springs Reservoir as its illustration, the essay points out the fragile human artifice which creates what successive generations view as "natural."