Originally Posted by
corvuscorvax
I'm not sure if Henny Penny is wrong, but Henny Penny is certainly completely incoherent.
Nah. It's just academic-speak. It actually makes sense once you've penetrated the jargon. If the jargon were too easy, riff-raff might get Oxbridge jobs.
Seriously, it's fascinating work. Worth slogging through the deliberately-dense prose.
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"What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles?. . . In that case, we Americans will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles."
~Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities