"We feel that gated communities are becoming popular at a very alarming rate, and that 10 to 20 years from now, people will realize that the gates are an anathema to a democratic, open society, and that they instead make for a more fearful society," said a Heavy Trash member.
We in the Third World are familiar with gates where the few wealthy superich oligarchy lives surrounded by teeming masses of dirt poor living in slums.The superich, surrounded by maids and personal guards ,commute behind armored cars and live behind 10 foot high walls.
Living in fear. Surrounded by potential robbers and kidnappers. Being superich in the Third World is hard work. Luckily, there are those mansions in the Canada or New Zealand "just in case'.
Posted by: kroni on April 27, 2005 5:58 AM
I liked the old project they did (http://www.heavytrash.blogspot.com/2005/04/stair-to-park.html) more. They built a 700 pound stairway into a park, that the city had built fences around to keep out homeless people. Good concept, but it seems to me that the cities just going to end up spending more money to remove these things. I wish the site had some information about what happened to the installations. Haha, much more intelligent than that stupid (http://www.democracymeansyou.com/wehatefreedom/index.php) protest.
worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it's just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.
