Thank you for your insightful essay. I wonder if the Flyover Country that I wrote about in my last post might not have lost its historic function as a body of resonance for the interior-city in the course of it evolving into a megalopolis significantly assuming as a matter of natural progression that its intererior journey is largely analogous to its preposterous ethos of spiritual interior orientation devoid of reflecting any need for outer-orientation, deemed destabilizing or even disruptive in its quest for maximizing individual gain while insisting that the city fulfill its function as an arbtier of contractual relationships in lieu of the extramanagerial self-regulation of organic communities.
Thanks for joining the conversation, Friedrich. I've just read your piece, but I'm not sure I can contribute anything to this discussion since my knowledge about the particularities of US everyday life is... Well, zero. (I've literally had to check what Flyover Country is and, after a Wikipedia entry, I'm still unsure if I understand its historical and conceptual importance.) Yet, I'll be happy to see you develop this further since it sounds like you are on to something.
Thank you, Buen Ravov. I apologize for my earlier contribution. It was an intuitive ramble rather than a reflective response, writing, as I was, while traveling by train, being driven rather than driving as it were. I appreciate your comment and your essay on the evolving city; I think it is quite relevant to understanding today’s political topography not just in the U.S. but very much also in Western Europe (and possibly beyond).
Thank you for your insightful essay. I wonder if the Flyover Country that I wrote about in my last post might not have lost its historic function as a body of resonance for the interior-city in the course of it evolving into a megalopolis significantly assuming as a matter of natural progression that its intererior journey is largely analogous to its preposterous ethos of spiritual interior orientation devoid of reflecting any need for outer-orientation, deemed destabilizing or even disruptive in its quest for maximizing individual gain while insisting that the city fulfill its function as an arbtier of contractual relationships in lieu of the extramanagerial self-regulation of organic communities.
Thanks for joining the conversation, Friedrich. I've just read your piece, but I'm not sure I can contribute anything to this discussion since my knowledge about the particularities of US everyday life is... Well, zero. (I've literally had to check what Flyover Country is and, after a Wikipedia entry, I'm still unsure if I understand its historical and conceptual importance.) Yet, I'll be happy to see you develop this further since it sounds like you are on to something.
Thank you, Buen Ravov. I apologize for my earlier contribution. It was an intuitive ramble rather than a reflective response, writing, as I was, while traveling by train, being driven rather than driving as it were. I appreciate your comment and your essay on the evolving city; I think it is quite relevant to understanding today’s political topography not just in the U.S. but very much also in Western Europe (and possibly beyond).