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[–]Wrangel 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The future is smaller cities with 75-300k inhabitants. I have moved to a city that size after living in one with several million people and I would never go back. Essentially every service in a major city is available here and there is no traffic, I can go places by bike with it not being too far, the crime is much lower, it is much friendlier and housing is affordable. The labour market isn't that bad anymore (at least pre covid) in the smaller places. College towns with strong STEM-departments are getting science parks and more industrial towns are often moving to more high tech production and more qualified jobs.

If you live close to a place with 100k people you can live on a small farm and still be able to commute to the city center in a reasonable amount of time.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it is a failed state.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with him that people are going to continue to flood out of the cities but he seems to suggest this will preserve America and it will be okay. Nothing is said what is to be done with the parasitic corporate class who will continue to run America into the ground as long as they are making profit. You can run away from the cities but we are all are still living in the same culture with the same cultural leaders. I don't live in the city yet it is still awful living in this decaying nation and having to deal with the cultural chaos. The small towns don't produce academics, intellectuals, media, arts, so all the forces that drive our culture are still in the corrupters hands and we all have to live within such a system no matter where we live.

What exactly is the purpose of trying to persevere this America anyway? What he describes is not going to save America at all. We need a new foundation which doesn't include just running away from cities but developing a whole new outlook and cultural values. The one good thing that will come from seeing the death of the cities is that as the destructiveness of leftist beliefs will be shown more clearly which will help develop a new "Enlightenment" to challenge the intellectual dominance of leftism. This is essential because conservative buffoonery does not challenge this system.