An Abhorrence for Urban Life
A Rural American Comments on the Ideology of Suburban Sprawl
© 2016 James LaFond
MAR/21/16
“Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.”
-Ishmael
“Grow or die.”
-corporate axiom
As I currently read Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter, the constant theme among the people of the just born American Nation was to move away from the centers of power. Mesach Browning was moving away from settlements more often than not as he migrated with his aunt and uncle. Ironically, they were sometimes provided homes in the form of an abandoned hunter’s cabin, as hunters could typically not abide neighbors at all, even the kind of neighbors fleeing the slave master economy of the coastal cities.
As I communicate with folks in the Western U.S., like Ishmael, whose ancestors moved many times in the manner of Mesach, an abhorrence for urban life and a recognition of suburban life as its offensive incarnation is clearly manifest in the subtext of our correspondence, which Ishmael puts into focus with the concise statement above.
uncle satan
advent america
america the brutal
fanatic
under the god of things
night city
honor among men
wife—
broken dance
on combat
sorcerer!
blue eyed daughter of zeus
ranger?
let the world fend for itself
songs of aryas
by the wine dark sea
within leviathan’s craw
when you're food
barbarism versus civilization
taboo you
into leviathan’s maw
logic of force
cracker-boy
time & cosmos
book of nightmares
winter of a fighting life
on the overton railroad
solo boxing
menthol rampage
z-pill forever
the lesser angels of our nature
triumph
thriving in bad places
hate
the first boxers
sons of aryas
predation
the fighting edge
dark, distant futures
the gods of boxing
song of the secret gardener
your trojan whorse
beasts of aryas
the greatest lie ever sold
the greatest boxer
fiction anthology one
orphan nation
son of a lesser god
the sunset saga complete
masculine axis
all-power-fighting
fate
the combat space
logic of steel
the year the world took the z-pill
I can relate. My ancestors on both sides have never lived in towns with more than 1500 people. Never. Maybe a few of the English and Normans; maybe some Cahokia or big-town s-e Injuns, but that would be it. They are rural people. Ranchers, horsemen, farmers. My dad's forebear was in Missouri by 1820. That man's Melungeon-Cherokee wife died here in KS in 1870. She was born the year Washington took office. She'd crossed half a continent. My mom's people got sent to Australia from Cork and then got the hell out and came to KS. Still have cousins in Oz and THEY don't live in towns either.
As REH said, "Aryans weren't meant to live within walls".
Now they're trying to cram the entire nation into coastal megalopolises. City folk have bizarre hairstyles, ridiculous attire, and little sexual dimorphism.