Clouds pass over 11th Ave. & 28th St. Sadly, the wide open space of "Hudson Yards," just north, is destined to be more of the same we've seen for the past decade, a massive antiseptic hive for all the corporate drones drawn to wi-fi / bike lane / luxury service industry NYC, now pronounced "nice-y." It's sad to see a city once worthy of dreams, of stories that sought meaning, happily succumb to a living death where the narrative is under corporate control, and meaning just equals money.
I guess it's good I've been in brain-dead economic survival mode for months now, without time to fret over the fate of the world, much less this easily seduced city. I am turning into a drone, and by the time my transformation is complete, the city's will be too, and we'll all live happily ever after in a massive iPhone Puppet Show -- tracked and guided by caring corporate voices through the aisles of life, friction and worry free -- free at last of the need to decide which way the story goes, free at last of the burden of meaning.
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I've actually become more optimistic recently.
These places really require a steady supply of well paid drones to live there and live the lifestyle. This is running up against the brick wall of economic decline, companies and the governments are cutting back on their well paid drone positions and ejecting more of the holders of these jobs into reality. Keep in mind that the city has always had wealthy, unconnected from reality, type enclaves the difference during the past twenty years is that they multiplied far too much, upsetting the ecological balance of the city.
So I'm optimistic, mostly because of other serious problems, that at least the spread will be stopped and a sort of equilibriums will form.
I hope you're right Ed, but there's still so much money out there that I fear nothing but a Wall Street collapse can stop what feels like the cultural clear-cutting of this city.
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