After teasing his audience for days with cryptic Disney Land imagery and the promise of incredible news, Glenn Beck, the vile charlatan who’s made a career of fleecing America’s most fearful and ignorant, announced that he intends to build a $2 billion Libertarian utopia in rural Texas loosely modeled on Galt’s Gulch, the fictional community […]
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Glenn Beck announces his intention to build a Libertarian utopia, promising to bring the terrifyingly beautiful vision of Ayn Rand to life
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Agenda 21, American Dream Labs, apprenticeship, Atlas Shrugged, Ave Maria, Ayn Rand, big government, child labor, David Barton, Disney Land, Galt's Gulch, Glenn Beck, hate, Independence Park, intentional community, John Galt, Jonestown, Libertarianism, Mark's big ideas, reality television, separation of church and state, Texas, The Jefferson Lies, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Monaghan, WallBuilders, Walt Disney | 34 Comments
Two Frenchies on what they love about Detroit’s “Do It Ourselves” culture, and why they’re making a film about it
A few months ago, I received a nice note from two French filmmakers, who, for some reason, had stumbled across my site and liked it. Their names were Nora Mandray and Hélène Bienvenu, and, as I’d come to learn over the course of subsequent emails, they had been living in the the area for some […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Sustainability | Also tagged Arthur K. Peters Memorial Travel Grant, Beaubien, bikes, Caspar David Friedrich, Centre National de la Cinématographie, cities, community, community coming together, decent human community, decline, Detroit je t'aime, Detroit Soup, DIO, DIY, documentary film, Fender Bender, film making, France, French Film Institute, Fulbright scholars, generation Y, Grace Lee Boggs, hackers, Hantz Farms, Hungary, ingenuity, Kickstarter, La Croix, Lafayette, metaphors, Nora Mandray, Packard Plant, parables, Paris, Paris Institute of Political Studies, post-industrial era, Recycle Here, Romain Meffre, Romantism, ruin porn, self-reliance, soup, the Detroit situation, the future of American cities, the lessons of Detroit, the parable of Detroit, UCLA, urban farming, urban food system, urban living, urban renewal, Yves Marchand | 21 Comments