What you’re pointing out is just one expression of the larger phenomenon of America’s third-world-ification. We absolutely should have new airports. And trains

What you’re pointing out is just one expression of the larger phenomenon of America’s third-world-ification. We absolutely should have new airports. And trains. And not only should we have new airports and trains, we should have underground and undersea trains. Transatlantic undersea trains. Transpacific undersea trains. And we should have gleaming cityscapes of marble and gold, and great wide shaded streets free of cars and trucks and vehicles larger than mopeds or maybe sportbikes. And parks and water sculptures and street-corner quartets, flying cars and space elevators and O’Neill colonies, underground hydroponics farms and enormous vaulted subterranean spaces with artificial skies indistinguishable from a summer’s day. And you know why we don’t? Not for lack of industry or energy or technology or imagination. But because the money men aren’t interested.