A blogger wonders aloud - Did the NWO intentionally design US suburbia to be an emotional desert?
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BLOGGER MARK WRITES---
I was sharing some photos of the suburban town where I grew up, with my sister yesterday... for nostalgic purposes... but I want to share in a blogging that----
HERE IS ONE THING WHICH STRUCK MY SENSES in looking at all these pictures....
In promulgating America's suburban sprawl after WW2 - as suburbs were developed there was NO EFFORT AT ALL TO put any CULTURE in 98% of them. The overwhelming majority were just developed to effect a very non-thinking, emotionally bland, merely physical human existence. Work, eat, buy, sell. There was no sense of a CULTURE being spread from the urban metropolis into the suburbs. No spiritual sense, no sense of art or music or theater or ideals or intellectual development or philosophy. Towns, homes and stores were built with the same non-cultural blandness as feed barns in the old west. 100% BLAH!
No wonder mental and intellectual boredom was the main malaise of teen life in Suburbia. WHAT was there to be interested in or excited about?-- except going to some store to window-shop OR to buy something. That was your whole WHOP DEE DO thrill for any day. Go window shop or buy something (anything). No wonder mom bought a Kirby vacuum from a door to door salesman. It was probably the most exciting, unusual day she'd had in years..... And the town library was no big adventure. It lacked fascinating books... Cat In The Hat -was pretty much their speed.
My friend Howard and I used to make pizzas at his house. His mom bought home-made pizza kits and we made pizzas all the time. It was something to do. Thin crust with lots of sauce, lots of parmesan cheese and oregano. BTW I luved how my dad used to call that powdered cheese PAHR MEEJ YAHN ...versus parma-zahn. I liked dad's pronunciation better.
At my friend Bobby's house they had the backyard pool. That was very exciting at first. But after a while it became like having a cool bath. Been there done that.
SAT afternoon bus ride trips to the city of our county seat was a big thing with me and Howard-- JUST FOR CHANGE OF SCENERY. Not like there was all that much to DO there. All we did was window shop and and walk about.
Is it any wonder me and my siblings were elated when our aunt and uncle came to visit. Not only because we luved them and enjoyed seeing them, but also because they brought excitement and adventure. New conversation. Gifts. And always they were emotionally upbeat and fun.
Usual daily life in Suburbia? --- Gosh going down to the CIGAR STORE or DOWNTOWN STATIONERY STORE were some of the big adventure moments--- because they had soda, gum, candy, comics, and magazines with photos from all over the world. VERRRRRY FASCINATING! Plus those two stores were early ones to be-- AIR CONDITIONED! Many stores on Main Street had nothing but ceiling fans right up thru the mid 60's.
Even going to the shopping center mall was an adventure. Just to walk about and window shop. Suburban life was .... BORRRRRING boring boring boring. No intellectual stimulation whatsoever, and no substantive emotional stimulation to speak of. (Except for the county-seat city) there were --- No museums. No classical or jazz concerts. No live theater. No public seminars, speeches, public discussions. No poetry readings. Nothing.... Just physical existence. Work, eat, buy, sell. And yet we lived just 40 min outside the major cultural center of NYC. Quite ironic when you think about it, that the suburbs (only rare exceptions) were mostly developed with fundamentally NO THOUGHT to providing intellectual or emotional stimulation... of any real value. Think about that on a large scale nationally. Suburban life was about as emotionally dry as living on a military base, only the units were larger, more nicely furnished --and were called homes. Yet emotionally and intellectually, life in the suburbs was as bland as the Mojave Desert. It was for many- like doing time in emotional prison. You just could hardly wait to get out. It was rather tantamount to living in a barracks. YOU HAD ALMOST NO EMOTIONAL LIFE AND NO INTELLECTUAL LIFE....No wonder TV boomed up and became such a big thing in America in the 50's. The nation was emotionally starved with BOREDOM. Watching Yogi Bear at least made you laugh. Everyday life otherwise just kept you in a perpetual daze of boredom. Waiting for the next nite of Tuna casserole, because at least Tuna casserole was a zingy, great tasting -MEAL ADVENTURE.
But life was not like this during America's late 1800's and early 1900's. Friends and family were important and were a big part of your emotional and mental life. So what happened in the 50's? THE POST WW-2 MATERIAL PROSPERITY PHASE emphasized technology over inner life, and aspirational advancement for the household income, over a rich emotional life for the family. We were sold aspirational materialism, and we were de-sold the importance of having a healthy and well-developed emotional life/family life.