imported from detroit

IMPORTED FROM DETROIT

Back in my off-grid days, when TV was not Netflix but broadcast, and the amount of commercials had doubled since my youth, there appeared an advertisement so retarded and gay it made all others brightly shine in comparison, at least temporarily until the next brightest turd appears.  “Imported From Detroit” was a car commercial, as you might have guessed, as they usually don’t have Popeye’s Chicken spending money trying to connect a decaying industrial wasteland with yummy deep fried yard-bird in the minds of consumers, and if my memory serves correctly they were in effect saying that their Chrysler 6000 ( or whatever the make and model was ) was far better than a BMW or a Lexus and that the new Better Than Foreign Imports was whatever was being advertised.   Now, don’t get me wrong.  Car commercials have almost always been pretty terrible ( the only excepting coming to my mind was a Super Bowel [misspelling intentional] commercial with a dive-bombing seagull with the voice of the Cheers postman character ).  They were setting the low bar standard since about forever.  It was just that this irony challenged boastful claim was so far from the truth, akin to a chamber of commerce from Somalia trying to fill a tourist cruise, that it became especially bad.

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Plenty of uninformed folk still buy the worst sheet metal the American auto industry can pawn off on them, but while it is one thing to ignore your own poor behavior fleecing your customers, surely it is poor taste even for those jag-offs to spit upon products that are actually on a whole other plain of existence.  Back in the day, favoring Chevy, Ford or Chrysler was an informed matter of picking The Least Worst Evil, just as we did with politicians.  But just when you thought that they couldn’t get any worse, now all three car makers are pushing off exponentially worse quality, at double the price.  I think at this point I’d prefer to travel over to Poland and look for an old Soviet built Peoples Car and ship it over for ownership.  Detroit autos are a reflection of American values and a statement of our overall condition, pretty shiny over priced pieces of crap that don’t last very long and are priced at over what most of us can afford, assuming we even can find a job. 

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Alas, the auto companies are actually the BEST part of Detroit.  A lot of analysts, professional only by dent of income or amateur and self-styled such as myself, claim this is due to socialist government at the state and/or city level, but these are just idiots useful to the elites as they push the illusion that more free market will solve all our problems ( when, of course, in fact lack of regulation has made a lot of our problems far worse than they need to be-and that comes from a confirmed anarchist ).  The only problem Detroit has is a lack of a functional economy.  A quick look at most northern European countries will show you how much socialism is possible as long as money is flowing in.  Big Daddy Government is not the problem.  And you aren’t going to reverse the problems by throwing on a fresh layer of paint in the downtown area.  Anyone with money has already left this pit, and you can’t keep streetlamps on with Food Stamps. 

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Detroit is little different than most other Third World slums, their only reason for existence as a peasant dumping ground as global agriculture has become centralized, mechanized and commoditized forcing the poor off their land into the urban areas.  As with most things in America, we just did it in a way that was a lot more expensive and wasteful, but it is still just a slum holding our refuse ( I’m not making a racial statement-rednecks have their own version in rural trailer parks, just as dependent on welfare and crime ).  Now, here is the whole point of this article, so pay attention.  Detroit has tens of thousands of abandoned commercial buildings and homes.  Many are going up for sale for back taxes, quite a few for a nominal fee if you agree to fix them up.  If you think it is such a good idea to be a suburban prepper, or an in-place prepper, or to “bug-in”, or for that matter anyone who thinks Slow Collapse is correct, I challenge any of you to buy these nearly free properties and move to Detroit.  I’d wager no one would accept.  Because Detroit IS a very dangerous foreign country slum city. 

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So, what makes you think YOUR city is going to NOT emulate Detroit, very soon indeed?  I’m certainly not saying you must leave the city no matter the cost.  Almost all of us live in towns, even smaller towns, that contain too many people for our own safety.  I just want you to keep this in mind.  If you couldn’t survive in Detroit, right now, what makes you think your location is safe in the near future?  Detroit was THE glowing successful metropolis, not all that long ago.  If our only economic direction is Down Until Out, we will all be in Detroit sooner or later.  Please consider your reasons for staying.

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