EW Letter of the Week

We had some strong entries this week that more than made up for the unbloggable week that was January 17-24. A stirring defense of Mayor Kitty Piercy's liberalness was submitted by former grad unionist Rose Wilde and the AGEL connection alone would normally been enough for her to grace this page, which I imagine was 90% of her motivation for writing in the first place, but the king of Eugene quack also made an EW appearance this week and Rose is going to be at the very top of her game if she expects to unseat the green-anarcho-nut-job™ that is John Zerzan.

Eugene, bustling metropolis that it is, is trying to figure out the best way to move its citizens from one point to the other. Obviously, more roads is option number one. Some are advocating rapid bus, public transportation being the go-to liberal progressive preference to freedom cars. Some in the community, of course, realizing they are being outflanked, have proposed trolleys, which would be even more liberal/green/adorable/restrictive than the buses. How do you out-progress trolleys? I mean were talking heading back to a pre-internal combustion engine transportation choice. Ah yes, pre-industrialization. It really is the only sensible option.

IT'S STILL MALIGNANT

Eugene sports a lot of "green and "sustainable" liberals who dream of slightly re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic we're riding. Mr. Eco-Village Rob Bolman (1/24), for example, whose vision is a light rail system.

Always an industrial solution; never mind that industrialism is steadily snuffing out the natural world and is the basis of the high-tech world with its mounting emptiness and desolation.

More mining, smelting, etc., more of the foundation for all that takes us further and further from reconnecting with the earth and each other. But rail is better than cars! And a slightly slower growing cancer is better than a faster moving one. How about a vision of no industrial cancer instead of promoting it?

John Zerzan, Eugene