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As I'm an angry fatalist, Mike Davis is one one of my favorite authors, although City of Quartz is probably the only book of his I haven't read (but I think Ecology of Fear covers most of the same ground). If Los Angeles did not exist, then the land would be good for, well, the same sort of agriculture it was used for before the megalopolis showed up (hinted at by my "on a piece of land that size" qualifier).

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Mon Jun 25th, 2007 at 01:59:37 PM EST
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an angry fatalist

nice phrase.  moi aussi.

it's one thing to watch the crowded bus roaring straight at the brick wall and still accelerating... that's fatalism... what's angry-making is that it's a small freestanding brick wall in the middle of a huge coordinate grid of other choices;  knowing that the crash could easily have been avoided (where "easily" is a function of "preventing a bunch of greedy psychopaths from constructing our social reality"), that's (for me) the angry part...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Mon Jun 25th, 2007 at 03:04:07 PM EST
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angry fatalists...

fate rage....

it would be easy, if all were on board.

i see it as a communication challenge.

like speaking japanese to turtles, but more fun.

and hopefully a better payoff

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jun 26th, 2007 at 09:28:30 PM EST
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