Comments on: An Odd Notion http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/56 Tempering the laughter of the damned. The truth about optimism. The cynic engages the Buddha in reincarnating coversation. Stuff like that. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:03:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: talking plant http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/56#comment-28 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:42:34 +0000 http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/56#comment-28 Once the soul of a place is gone it will never return. The New Orleans that everyone knows is gone. There will be glimmers of the old for some time, and what is to come might even be better/more amazing, but as time marches on it grinds the landscape under its boot heels. I'd argue that the way to rebuild a ghetto would be to not do it. They will develop on their own as the rest of the society is put up. It comes from greed. Wherever money (or whatever currency the culture deals in) is amassed in large amounts, they always try to get the most out of the least. Get the fools to break their backs for our desires. The "fools" gather because they share a social environment. And there you have it, the birth of a ghetto. Course I could be completely wrong... Once the soul of a place is gone it will never return. The New Orleans that everyone knows is gone. There will be glimmers of the old for some time, and what is to come might even be better/more amazing, but as time marches on it grinds the landscape under its boot heels.

I’d argue that the way to rebuild a ghetto would be to not do it. They will develop on their own as the rest of the society is put up. It comes from greed. Wherever money (or whatever currency the culture deals in) is amassed in large amounts, they always try to get the most out of the least. Get the fools to break their backs for our desires. The “fools” gather because they share a social environment. And there you have it, the birth of a ghetto.

Course I could be completely wrong…

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