And so of course Americans are right-wing Christian fundamentalists who vote
for George W. Bush. What else are you going to do when you're surrounded by
parking lots all day?
And that's the car park theory of American takeover.
Car parks - parking lots - are in the Republicans' direc
so this is not the first time on this list that i've read something
where someone pretends to understand america. i grew up in the bible
belt and i can say that people are not going to church because they hate
the parking lot. they are going because they love it. and as such this
carparktheory
I like it. It works for me. The car parks and the cars, and the used car
lots, and the strip malls, the cloverleafs, the drive-in banks and fast food
joints, the automated voices and instant tellers, self-serve gas stations
with skyscraper signs and digitalized fuel dispensaries, golden arches o
It would appear, on the other hand, that equating "european style" space
and people who live in apartments and people who don't drive cars (?) with
non-english speaking terrorism in america is... a little fishy. As is
trusting W. But perhaps I mistake a sense of humor for white trash on
nettime
I thought the car park theory was a good metaphor for the black hole that
is public life in America. At the risk of descending to banal abstraction,
I would put the main difference between the USA and EU down to the
relative dominance of private property over public provision. This
accounts at
