kevin_strom on Nostr: Just yesterday I personally experienced peak American overpopulation and decay. I ...

Just yesterday I personally experienced peak American overpopulation and decay. I drove for business reasons from my home in semi-rural and overwhelmingly White western Pennsylvania to Flushing, Queens, in New York City, and back.

It took 14 hours and was, at least in its eastern half, not pleasant -- endless traffic totally packing 8-lane "freeways," ground to a halt again and again and again, insane risk-taking drivers, filth and trash and beggars all over the place, fantastically massive, ugly, and inhuman architecture, decaying remains of the beautiful architecture of the Old America, fences and barriers everywhere blocking your views and psychologically grinding you down, surveillance cameras by the thousands, relentless ads for things no one needs and for lawyers (half the billboards seem to be plugging lawyers with Semitic-sounding names). And only a minority of the people seen were of America's founding stock (and how many of these were biological hybrids/mimics is anyone's guess).

(The trip underscored the fact that the value of the so-called "dollar" has fallen precipitously, especially there in the capital of money-creation: It costs $17.61 to cross one bridge, one way, one time in NYC, and another bridge was $11.50 one way. If you had to cross both bridges twice every work day, that would be over $57 a day, over $1,000/month just for bridge tolls! The toll booths are abandoned and falling apart; they photograph your license plates and send you a bill (with the threat of "registration suspension" if you don't pay) if you are so retrograde as to not have an "EZPass" spying device in your car which will auto-deduct the amount from your bank usury card.)

Needless to say, the air was nearly unbreathable.

O beautiful for spacious skies!