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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I wrote about Albany again. This time, the Empire State Plaza and our technocracy

intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-amer…
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Also. I don’t like the “egg”. One of the ugliest buildings I have ever run across ImageImage
Also. I give you both great words AND great photos. What other substack does that? ImageImageImage

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2 Dec
Urban renewal is often an euphemism for kicking out the poor (eminent domain!) & building soulless concrete monoliths. But man oh man did Nelson Rockefeller outdo everyone else in Albany

intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-amer…
Think this Walking America series is gonna end up being a visual history of how the urban design decisions made by politicians & technocrats X decades ago, often brutal ones (& very classist & racist), still linger & dominate
I want series to really becomes is what most of my work is about: How people build communities DESPITE harsh surroundings & unfavorable odds

That was kinda main point of McDonald's stuff. People really really need community, so much that they even find it in fast food franchises
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26 Nov
absolutely shocking.... An educational divide being central to who we are? Who coulda seen this?
My long standing point is Educational divide is most salient divide. It is the new cultural division.

That isn't surprising. We literally sort by education. That is what the system strives to do.

So it crosses older hierarchies. Like wealth & geography
That doesn't mean there is no difference between the Back row and Front row. Statistically by older metrics (wealth, geography) they might look pretty similar, but how they define themselves.
How they find meaning, is very very very different
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26 Nov
Any new mandated lockdowns will trigger mass protests & riots unlike anything seen before.

Unless that new wave is like 10X more deadly & immune to vaccine, & so is effectively a new disease.

We can try it, might be right thing, but that will be one of the guaranteed results
Even should a new wave come, people will pull back & change behavior without mandated lockdown

What people hate though, is complete bureaucratic control of how they should deal with this stuff. Which are largely insensitive to the vast class differences lockdowns accentuates.
Not surprisingly, Covid policy has been less impactful to the same class of people who construct Covid policy — people with secure incomes who can work at home & Sheltering in place isn’t a hell of 3 generations & 6 people sharing one bathroom
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20 Nov
Can’t quit Albany. What an odd town on weekends
Someone got Brasília envy
Quite the contrast — each staring at each other from across the street
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17 Nov
Alll right Albany (Sorry, capital district), it’s me & you for the next 16 miles.
Last time I was here this was a drug trap in an abandoned building. Now it’s got ironic art
Albany has always had a weird juxtaposition of historical (in various states of repair), & then modern corporate government bleh (functional yet soulless)
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14 Nov
I wrote about how core to their identity being unvaccinated is to the many people I have met in the Back row who are unvaccinated intellectualinting.substack.com/p/among-the-un…
I am writing about people over 50. Making stuff more complex is “weightlifting bros”, back row very fit young men armed with tons of data & skepticism of health sciences forged from yrs of doing their own thing. They buttress anti vaccine crowd despite very different risk profile
(For those asking, no I myself won't be getting a booster. Since I got a rather un-fun, & rare, side effect from the original vaccine)
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