Ah umm are you sure?

Should i shout agin ?

As b says. Again again do it again

So i have witnessed the voiding of this vast American land- during another road trip north to south , south to north , using  the older non interstate highways  now byways - few trucks.  These trips thru rural america are like internet surfing-just slower.

It is utubing  a country without the electronic interface.  What to write about?  What one observes?   Experience?
First , one is hit with a material and human blight over a magnificant topography, a sense of stasis tending towards decay — massive consolidation of land —- and a few urban centers growing, exploding with the migration of people from towns around that are dying .

I think of how solar systems are formed from the dust of the universe into balls ,  seperated by great distance within emptiness .  Orbiting  a massive star ;   The inexorable power of gravity.  

So at seventy years , I can say yes! There has been and there is a clear and severe depopulation of  the old farming areas - the country areas .  For some lucky counties and regions, a stability.  Little or no growth of people or material stucture .

Yet you know , many of these  places will soon rot and start the slow death spiral that so many other towns have gone thru.

Is this bad?  Consolidation into large urban  centers may be what is best for todays and future populations.  But it causes big  problems for the older established towns and counties, and growth stresses for the chosen behemoths.

American capitalism is posited on growth!  It has no language for stability-for stasis. Unlike our solar system  a well ordered fairly static system - the crash and burn of the orbs into the sun are  far far off,

Our social and economic tools are not such to deal with  the infestation of rural rot the evaporation of decentralized economies.

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