A lost Pandora on Manhattan

[auroraglacialis]

Interesting choice of words to call the transformation of the forests and ponds and creeks of the Manhattan peninsula and the eradication of the local population in favour of a big ugly city the "Manhattan Project" - This fites really well to what is normally called the "Manhattan Project" - its what this culture does - destroy living things with violence

Manhattan is especially crazy as they did not even bother to build their roads around hills and ponds as they did in many old European cities - which is why the city centers are often having weird roads curving and twisting - but they forced that stupid square-grid structure onto the land that demanded the landscape to be levelled.

And yes - this is true in some way or another for all cities, even the smaller ones and also for all suburbias. This is why some people say it is civilization that is destroying the planet because the word civilization comes from civis which refers to people living in cities. And it is exactly that - the rise of cities with their need to import stuff because they cannot grow their own food or have enough trees or mines within the city to keep going - what is so harmful and violent and out of balance. Cities denuded and levelled their landbase and now demand from the rest of the landscape and the people living on that landscape to still feed and clothe the people living in that city - if needed at gunpoint (as our minister of war recently said - "we are in Afghanistan" (what he meant was the he sent troops to Afghanistan) to defend our "right for access to markets and resources". So in other words if those people living outside the cities "sit on something" that the civilized want, they are removed. Just like Hometree sits on Unobtainium so does almost all "resources" that people living in civilized nations (nations that basically overall behave like a city) consume are coming from a landbase that was taken with violence and against resistance from indigenous people. In the case of the USA, even the very space people now live was taken from indigenous people, certainly the rivers and springs for the water, the mountains for the coal and the forests for the wood...