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Those cookie cutter homes, Wal Mart and strip malls are not an absence of culture... that is the culture.
by code_duck 10y ago
Those cookie cutter homes, Wal Mart and strip malls are not an absence of culture... that is the culture.
- Chris2048 10y agoIt's one part of it, and needs to be taken in historical/global context to be viewed positively.
- ssully 10y agoFor those interested in this, check out Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck. It was written in 1962, but I think it holds up well. An aged Steinbeck feels out of touch with a country he is famous for writing about. To aid this, he travels across the country with his dog to see the America and it's people he has grown away from. He specifically avoids major highways and roads for the reasons people list here.
- pessimizer 10y agoNo, they aren't; though culture grows through them and around them. They're the result of government policies. Soviet apartment blocks aren't culture either.