@Ryan Puzycki, I did not know that the populations of American cities collapsed during the revolutions, that is an astonishing fact. Obviously, they bounced back, owing to the resilience of cities as near-immortal human-made organisms.
Cities are the cauldrons of progress where ideas churn, burn, and battle with each other. Cities are supercomputers, where problems are tested and resolved.
Nor did I, but your point is the crucial one: they bounced back! Incidentally, the British occupation of the cities strained their ability to prosecute the war out in the countryside, so one wonders what our world might be like if they hadn't holed themselves up. Today might only be notable for us because of a parliamentary election!
I appreciate the history lesson! There's a lot in this article that I didn't know.
In terms of the call to action at the end, you write, "It’s incumbent on those who live in and love America’s cities to take up the drumbeat and remind the rest of the country that there would be no United States of America without them." This is a lovely sentiment. The problem it seems to me is that the people who this message would appeal to do not live in American cities. Perhaps a more appropriate call to action would be to something like, "It is incumbent on those who love America to return to her cities and take up the drumbeat and remind the rest of the country that there would be no United States of America without them. " Or something like that.
On further consideration, I think my phrasing here was unclear, and my intended meaning did not convey. I've rephrased this so that it more clearly (I hope) conveys what I was going for, which was sorta captured in my last response. Thanks for the feedback!
@Ryan Puzycki, I did not know that the populations of American cities collapsed during the revolutions, that is an astonishing fact. Obviously, they bounced back, owing to the resilience of cities as near-immortal human-made organisms.
Cities are the cauldrons of progress where ideas churn, burn, and battle with each other. Cities are supercomputers, where problems are tested and resolved.
Nor did I, but your point is the crucial one: they bounced back! Incidentally, the British occupation of the cities strained their ability to prosecute the war out in the countryside, so one wonders what our world might be like if they hadn't holed themselves up. Today might only be notable for us because of a parliamentary election!
I appreciate the history lesson! There's a lot in this article that I didn't know.
In terms of the call to action at the end, you write, "It’s incumbent on those who live in and love America’s cities to take up the drumbeat and remind the rest of the country that there would be no United States of America without them." This is a lovely sentiment. The problem it seems to me is that the people who this message would appeal to do not live in American cities. Perhaps a more appropriate call to action would be to something like, "It is incumbent on those who love America to return to her cities and take up the drumbeat and remind the rest of the country that there would be no United States of America without them. " Or something like that.
Thus we must take the revolution to the countryside once more, this time to reclaim our cities’ role in history and American life.
On further consideration, I think my phrasing here was unclear, and my intended meaning did not convey. I've rephrased this so that it more clearly (I hope) conveys what I was going for, which was sorta captured in my last response. Thanks for the feedback!