America in Chains by James LaFond

Author:James LaFond [LaFond, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

An Abhorrence for Urban Life

A Rural American Comments on the Ideology of Suburban Sprawl

© 2016 James LaFond

“Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.”

-Ishmael

“Grow or die.”

-corporate axiom As I currently read Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter, the constant theme among the people of the just born American Nation was to move away from the centers of power. Mesach Browning was moving away from settlements more often than not as he migrated with his aunt and uncle. Ironically, they were sometimes provided homes in the form of an abandoned hunter’s cabin, as hunters could typically not abide neighbors at all, even the kind of neighbors fleeing the slave master economy of the coastal cities.

As I communicate with folks in the Western U.S., like Ishmael, whose ancestors moved many times in the manner of Mesach, an abhorrence for urban life and a recognition of suburban life as its offensive incarnation is clearly manifest in the subtext of our correspondence, which Ishmael puts into focus with the concise statement above.

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