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THE_DESTRUCTION_OF_COMMUNITY

                                             July 30, 2007

  Instead of learning to live together,
  suburbanites were sold on a vision of
  "white flight", abandoning the cities
  to minorities.

  They try to live their lives
  sealed away from unplanned
  encounters -- driving from              After they achieve
  box to box inside of a box.             this dream of insulation,
                                          they often don't even
                                          know their next
     The urban dweller riding             door neighbors, let
     public transit may not               alone know what's
     even talk to their fellow            going on in the next
     passengers much, but I               block.
     think that regularly
     sitting in the same space               For a people living
     with people of different                like this to develop a
     classes and races makes                 sense of community is
     it much harder for                      a near impossiblity.
     someone else to demonize
     them:

        They may not be people
        like you, but they're
        clearly people.






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