Thoughts on Philadelphia

[fschmidt]

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[Drealm]

You didn't mention anything about the black question. This is important because blacks are the worst kind of Americans. I remembered hearing somewhere that a lot of blacks live there so I looked it up, 41% black. For reference Oakland is 25% black. Youtube has this video showing some neighborhood in Philadelphia. It looks mostly black. Also here is a map showing where whites and blacks live. It would be helpful for you to reference on the map where you went.

[TheodoreBlack]

Cities are centers of degeneracy and Modern culture. Though there are economic benefits of living in large population centers, the social destruction and alienation, coupled with the pure unnaturalness of the  gray skyscrapers; with its life centered around economic rather than spiritual activity, is antithetical to a healthy spirit.

[fschmidt]

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[TheodoreBlack]

What do you mean by old and new? Aesthetics? Or literal age? I can kind of see what you're getting at, but my skepticism towards the city, and I live in one now, is not with the idea itself but with many of the things associated with it. It causes distance between a person and Nature, it makes one ignorant to ones roots. It shifts the focus from the town center, historically a social and religious center with a Church, to the financial sectors of a downtown or shopping mall. One cannot see where their food is grown, or experience the freshness of occasional solitude. It also breaks down the family, and decreases self-sufficiency. The Amish detest them for a reason.

And even worse, you have the demographic danger, the expansion of the degenerates into nicer suburbs, and a Liberal political monopoly.

This is not to say I prefer some type of rural dwelling, primitivism, I think a healthy balance is needed. I think the town, or village is the best bet, within decent proximity to larger urban areas for economic reasons, but not too close to compromise autonomy.