A Region Is An Area

The Salient Mystery Of Dark Ages Sets The Stage For Mass Amnesia. People Living In Vigorous Cultures Typically Treasure Those Cultures And Resist Any Threat To Them. How And Why Can A People So Totally Discard A Formerly Vital Culture That It Becomes Vitally Lost?

Reformers Have Long Observed City People Loitering On Busy Corners, Hanging Around In Candy Stores And Bars And Drinking Soda Popon Stoops, And Have Passed A Judgment, The Gist Of Which Is: "this Is Deplorable! If These People Had Decent Homes And A More Private Or Bosky Outdoor Place, They Wouldn't Be On The Street!" That Judgment Represents A Profound Misunderstanding Of Cities. It Makes No More Sense Than To Drop In At A Testimonial Banquet In A Hotel And Conclude That If These People Had Wives Who Could Cook, They Would Give Their Parties At Home.

The Victorian House And Lots Of Other Buildings Weren't Oppressive In Themselves. They Were Often Very Airy And Gingerbready And Fancy. But They Were Associated With All This [victorian] Stuffiness.

Power Is Supposed To Be So Corrupt. I Don't Think It's So Much Corrupt, In The Usual Sense Of The Word, As Stupid And Unrealistic. The More Power A Person Has, The Further He Gets From Reality.

All Through Organized History, If You Wanted Prosperity You Had To Have Cities. Cities Are Places That Attract New People With New Ideas.