To Build Community Requires

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”        ~ bell hooks

Because of induced demand, this Sisyphean struggle against congestion is an expensive boondoggle

this could be written about Barrie’s own Allandale and the 400: ‘but it’s really a divider—because it isolates Allendale.’

The iron law of congestion is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more peak-hour trips, which brings back traffic, and so on.

Because of induced demand, this Sisyphean struggle against congestion is an expensive boondoggle. Worse, the added miles of highway lanes act as an accelerant for climate change.

With so many forces pushing for roadway expansions, opposing them requires political bravery. 

https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html

Political Power != Cultural Power

 “Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.”

‘These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.’

Listen, if you can stomach it, to a random MAGA grievance rant & ask yourself “how much of what they’re most upset about is something public policy can realistically address?”

‘Elon Musk has all the money in the world and can’t buy one minute of cool.’

I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) 2024-11-15T04:53:32.853Z

conservatism has long been surrounded by an enormous shimmering halo of pseudo-philosophy

Frank Wilhoit: ‘Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”’

What I have taken advantage of is what so many, many, many, many other people have taken advantage of, which is today the total disintermediation of the public discourse. There is no longer any gatekeeping whatsoever.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html