I don't think the blame lies solely with corporations when it comes to urban planning issues. Corporations will act in the way that they think is most profitable. Always. That's a know quantity.

The reason that so many places ended up looking like this is failures of the political systems that allow, or even encourage this type of development. Express you displeasure to your elected officials at all levels. That is the best way to get changes made, not just complaining about corporations on the internet.

Corporations did this, and everyone just went with it.

Not true, a socialist movement was on the rise in the US but then the government started abducting and arresting anyone who had any ties to socialism from Truman to McCarthy.

The government has been very clear that any real threat to zombie consumerism/ capitalism will quickly be snuffed out through state sanctioned violence.

Also, the US bombed the fuck out of every country that tried to resist being taken over by western corporations. "The Jakarta Method" is a very interesting read on the untaught atrocities of the US government that forced the world down the path it went down.

I imagine my experience with technology "innovation" over the last 20-25 years mirrors past generations' love affair with booming industry and commerce.

It starts with skepticism, enters a phase of slow adoption, and after the average consumer has accepted an idea and is convinced of its benefits, becomes accustomed to and dependent on its normalization. Then the industry cranks up the exploitation to eleven, and anyone who grows to hate it is stuck in the banal evil of it all.

Both of these views are reductionist.

Most obviously, because "native peoples" aren't a single group. They were/are a large and diverse set of groups with varying beliefs and cultural practices.

But more poiginetly because both views paint native peoples as naive innocents. This is the "noble savage" myth. But this is far from the truth. Native people murdered and enslaved other native people. They had kings and gods. They went to war. They destroyed ecosystems and drove species to extinction. The only real difference between native people and their western conquerors was some technological innovation and resistance to pathogens.

That's because you and I were force fed Western propaganda from a young age. Indigineous people have an actually sustainable way of living. The Western world has set humanity on a path to extinction, with a bet that technology will somehow save us at the last second.

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Breezewood Pa. It's a overgrown truck stop built around an interstate exit(like half the towns here). If your crossing the state you will end up there. Best attraction is the top left gas station with the clean bathrooms and a few shops inside.

That sounds great, but I'd like I even more if we make those carriages breathe out fumes that slowly break the entire ecosystem.