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The Quivering Upper Lip by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2008

Yes, he's an old curmudgeon, but there are valid questions and true insights in this piece, which among other things basically asks, whatever happened to self-control and isn't there something plain wrong with thinking that it's now imperative to let it all hang out all the time.
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Certainly, many Britons under the age of 30 or even 40 now embrace a kind of sub-psychotherapeutic theory that desires, if not unleashed, will fester within and eventually manifest themselves in dangerous ways. To control oneself for the sake of the social order, let alone for dignity or decorum (a word that would either mean nothing to the British these days, or provoke peals of laughter), is thus both personally and socially harmful.

I have spoken with young British people who regularly drink themselves into oblivion, passing first through a prolonged phase of public nuisance. To a man (and woman), they believe that by doing so, they are getting rid of inhibitions that might otherwise do them psychological and even physical harm.
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Tags: theodore_dalrymple, socialcritique, england, morality, commentary on 2008-12-06 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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The end of suburban sprawl

Well, well ...an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen (republished across the CanWest newspaper empire, therefore also in Victoria's Times-Colonist), unsigned, that lays out the tenets of anti-sprawl and pro-urbanist thinking succinctly and favorably. (Except that while the title calls it "suburban sprawl," the author calls it "urban sprawl" in the first paragraph. Odd.)

Of interest for a Canadian perspective is that the article hints at the realities of infrastructure funding in Canada.

Tags: sprawl, ottawa, urbanism, cities, commentary on 2008-08-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.canada.com

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Paul Krugman Joins Team Density | hugeasscity

danb comments on Paul Krugman's recent NYT column, which he wrote while in a Berlin mid-rise/ low-rise neigjborhood. I posted a comment back about amenities, and whether it's possible to create architecture w/ amenities when you're building on small (10K) city lots and trying to stick to low-rise (or low mid-rise at best). File under "commentary."

Tags: hugeasscity, density, seattle, paul_krugman, james_kunstler, commentary, low_rise, mid_rise, high_rise on 2008-05-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromnoisetank.com

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small change: Sutra Readings - 13

Maria posted another thought-provoking entry based on her reading of the Sutras, which in turn resonated with something I had just read on Jonah Lehrer's blog, and prompted me to a lengthy-ish comment. File under "commentary."

Tags: maria_benet, smallchange, commentary on 2008-05-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Understanding Infrastructure | Linux Journal

Great essay by Doc, asking if Linux, open source, the web -- all these things -- are infrastructure. "What is 'infrastructure' anyway?"

Tags: infrastructure, commentary, doc_searls, linux, open_source on 2008-04-24 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Crosscut Seattle - Green is the new gold rush? Not without government R&D

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