Early townspeople knew the importance of spreading their money around to multiple town businesses. And the business owners knew the importance of serving everyone’s needs.
Townsends explains in the video below:
Category: Hometown America
15 Minute Cities
Are 15-minute cities a good idea? Yes and No. It would be convenient if every part of a city had everything you needed. But ultimately, people in power will use it as a control mechanism.
Get everyone to use transit, and you can control their movements.
Have everyone live in buildings without land, and you control their food supply.
Get everyone to go cashless, and you control their access to money.
I could be wrong, but the man’s chickens in the video below have everything they need, and he makes a good point.
Super Pig
I thought I was safe this year. But apparently I have to worry about Canadian Super Pigs coming down to eat all my food.
Wild ‘super pigs’ in Canada poised to wreak environmental havoc, spread disease in US, expert says
Main Street
I have been filming town centers across North Carolina for my Alright with Timothy French YouTube channel and found this video today from the Recollection Road channel with photos of the towns as they used to be.
Check it out.
Lifestyle Centers
Fake towns, lifestyle centers, power centers, whatever you want to call them, they are basically outdoor malls. And it’s interesting to see these shopping malls attempting to replicate the town centers they decimated in the past.
CityNerd’s overview of this is interesting:
We Are Not A Democracy
America is not a democracy
Dignity
Where is our dignity? A look at today’s headlines show nothing but poor morality and corruption. Our large cities are festering while we sit by and do nothing as if someone else is going to fix the problem. Make no mistake, America’s track lies solely at the feet of We The People.
This Is Insane
A teacher who outraged parents with BDSM materials claims it helps kids’ identity development. This is insane, and the teacher should be fired. But she has not. Why? Had this been a straight male trying to teach his kids about his sexuality with sexual materials, he would have and should have been fired.
Teachers, keep your sex life at home because nobody cares what you do in private, But exposing it to our kids, that’s a different story.
Safe
What if you had an enemy that knew everything about you. Pictures of your face. Your fingerprints, DNA, and medical records. Emails, spending habits, fears, and desires. Your private conversations. All locked up in a database to use against you when needed.
Now imagine it was all true and come up with a word to describe your feelings. I’ll bet SAFE is not one of them.
Tiffany Terry
I often talk about small independent businesses, Mom & Pops, if you will. And this series about the R.M.Brooks General Store exemplifies all that is good about them.
Tiffany Terry is a good role model for future entrepreneurs.
The video below is one of ten episodes. Watch them all.
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