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Dunno, seems pretty Kafkaesque for a city where you can get arrested by the police for the most minutiae things, and the reason for it is not because you’ve don
by cyber_kinetist 5y ago
Dunno, seems pretty Kafkaesque for a city where you can get arrested by the police for the most minutiae things, and the reason for it is not because you’ve done anything wrong but just that the city needs to raise funds.
> Staggering lack of leadership in city government.
The paragraph explained the reason for the city’s downfall: deindustrialization and offshoring starting from the 1970s has shut down manufacturing jobs in the area, and the more affluent whites moved to bigger cities for better prospects, while blacks were left behind. This is much more than just lack of leadership in the local government, it has more to do with the deliberate macro-economic decisions of the US government starting from half a century ago.
- xyzzy21 5y agoI'd BS on the actuality of this. I've never seen it in Rust Belt cities.
- darkerside 5y ago> pretty Kafkaesque >> enormous gulf << > beyond any of Kafka’s ghastliest nightmares The tongue in cheek exaggeration has gone too far. I'm guilty of it, too. But we all need to stop. You are correct that the macroeconomic issues have caused enormous problems. It is indeed a lack of leadership (in the government, in the police force, in community leaders) that let them fester and turn into the embarrassing mess that it did. Making excuses about the broader economic environment is a great example of the excuse making that characterizes this leadership deficit.