House of Eratosthenes

We’ve linked to Rick often enough lately, but you really have to go and check this one out and we owe him a hat tip for the find even though Crowder’s pumping out these installments reliable-as-rain every week…because hey, there’s better-than-even odds we’d have missed this.

This latest installment’s chosen topic: Detroit’s a shit hole. But why.

I was struck immediately with three thoughts:

1. This is dangerous work even in the daytime. Is Crowder, or someone within his camera crew, packing heat?
2. Hey, are you allowed to pack heat in Detroit?
3. Who am I kidding — nobody really knows if you’re allowed to pack heat in Detroit, because nobody really gives a shit.

This is important because it looks at Detroit through the lens which focuses my own mental image of Detroit, which casts it as what it really is: A laboratory for brain-dead left-wing policies. People still aren’t getting the maliciousness of it all. I would take it to the level of — if God is weeping over us, losing faith year by year in His experiment, the problem isn’t war, sickness, yawning divide between rich & poor, injury to the environment or any of that all garbage Hollywood keeps spoon-feeding you on a whim. It’s these narcissistic fuckwads we keep electing. He must be wondering if we’re ever gonna learn, just like any decent conservative wonders if we’re ever gonna learn.

Now we get to watch the sad, sick opera play out across the entire national stage. All these columnists and talk show hosts and Sunday-morning pundits loftily wondering what the ultimate effects are of crap-n-trade and ObamaCare, they can just save it & stuff it. We already know.

Watch all the way to the end about the “urban farms” and the bears starting to take the place over. Yeah that’s right, the urban blight has gotten so bad it’s starting to deteriorate into nothingness.

Do you know someone you hate so badly that when you think about them, you feel yourself losing a grip on your own sense of compassion and humanity? Like you would send them to Hell without a second thought? Fine & good, but you probably wouldn’t send that guy to live in Detroit.

Liberalism is despair. It is revenge taken on total strangers, with no prior offense recalled to justify the revenge. And its most bumptious cheerleaders love to wail away about “the failed policies of George W. Bush.” So they’re into failed policies, are they…next time, get ’em to offer some kind of opinion about Detroit and what that says about “failed policies.”

The Blog That Nobody Reads is not to be responsible for brain aneurysms, strokes, tumors or cranial implosions resulting from that tired ol’ grasping-at-straws exercise of trying to blame something on Bush. This is a divide-by-zero equation — although some would surely attempt it — you can’t blame this on Bush, or anyone besides dedicated, hard-boiled lefties. As Crowder points out, they’ve had a perfect isolated laboratory for 48 years. They own this.

Detroit is just the vanguard sample. Crowder could have made a similar documentary in…oh, there are about ten other liberal urban strongholds that come to mind immediately around our nation, and God only knows how many others could be drummed up through a meticulous study. Where are the conservative counterparts is what I really want to know. Where are our modern Dickensian Londons with their squalid, rotting townships of blight caused by too much respect for the individual’s right to bear arms, businesses being treated too well, and capitalists being allowed to keep too much of their money? Where is the conservative citadel with its “failed policies” that can compete with Detroit?

Things surely do suck south of Eight Mile. But Detroit remains a beautiful place north of Eight Mile. Scroll down to my first post this past Sunday for a recent (2007, I think) Google Earth street view of my old neighborhood… and Ferndale ain’t Bloomfield Hills… it’s a working-class sorta ‘burb where life was pretty danged good 15 years ago, and looks like it still might be.

But as for the City of Detroit? I weep, and with good reason.
- bpenni | 12/22/2009 @ 13:04
So this is the new meeting place for residents of Ferndale, is it? I’ve lived in Ferndale for the past 22 years, so bpenni and I may have crossed paths. The schools are still good here, but with my youngest at Ferndale High, I (and others) do worry about Detroit kids in our schools. We know that Detroit parents would rather have them here than in Detroit schools, but we also know that some of these Detroit kids are here grudgingly and may not all have the skills they need to do the work expected of them.

There are still a few places to go and decent restaurants to eat at in the city. And unless there’s a game downtown or something going on at Hart Plaza, you don’t have to worry much about traffic.

A few years ago a local wealthy industrialist wanted to donate many millions of dollars to open a few specialized high schools in the city. Detroit leadership turned down his donation as the wealthy gentleman was white. I’d like to say things have changed since then, but watching the current dramas amongst the city’s leadership, I’m not sure it has.
- sonofsheldon | 12/22/2009 @ 21:03
sonofsheldon: We just may have crossed paths. I left Ferndale in ’94 after living there for eight years. As I said above… life was pretty danged good there. I might still could have been there were it not for a corporate transfer and follow-on weirdness.
- bpenni | 12/23/2009 @ 02:53

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