@ http://esoschronicles.blogspot.com/

Fucked-Up Cities by © Eso Anton benjamins, 2020

EC724     

Will wonders never cease?

      

The first wonder this  morning was the tragic ‘good’ news (via ZeroHedge) that the Iranian government has admitted that by some unintended ”mistake” yet to be known unknowns downed a Ukrainian plane with the loss of 176 lives of passengers and crew  ^{https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stunning-reversal-iran-admits-accidentally-shooting-down-ukrainian-passenger-jet} .

The second wonder is that the Japanese company known as Toyota has entered upon a new phase of planet Earth destruction by racing to replace production of cars with production of cities ‘of the future’  ^{https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/toyota-develop-175-acre-ai-city-future .}.

As readers of my blogs know, this writer believes that the two greatest evils of our so-called Civilization are agriculture and the cities it has enabled, i.e. urbanism.

The third evil is that for all the ‘wise men’ and experts in our academic institutions the Ills of this Civilization’s societies go unnoticed and—if mentioned—are dismissed as irrelevant and products of some long ago discredited observation. More often than not one hears a reference to Sodom and Gomorha, two cities which according to eperts  a nonexistent God of a supersticious people destroyed

The fourth ‘horseman’ is/are the men who replaced the hardships imposed by a life in Nature (which caused humankind to discover God) with an urban construction known as a fort.

                                                             

It is interesting that it is the ‘fort’, aka polis (with assistance of Grimm’s Law  ^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law}  aka fors—village in Swedish) out of which in the course of time evolved the city. In earlier times the fort had been a holy place in the wood, a place for healing often near a sacred spring known as kulicha in Russian, Kurort in German, church in English, etc.

Apparently such holy places became the envy of certain powerful and armed men and were seized by them for their sole use, which is how Well Street* bacame known as Wall Street  ^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street} . Of course this etymology, in spite of its logic, is denied today by those who have benefited by becoming the usurpers of the well.

*The first settlers who came to New York by the ship "Nieu Nederlandt" in 1624 like all people who founded a new ettlement needed to be close to a source of freh water, which they found somewhere along the route that became known as ‘Well Street’.

For the people of Kyoto, their holy spring was at the Kanazawa shrine in far off Kaname ^{https://kaname-inn.com/ideas/sacred-wells-magic-stones-kanazawa-shrine/} , where to a Merchant married off his daughter, because he had heard there was a well there where leaves of gold rose to the surface from its bottom. Is this where the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji Temple) got its gold from?

More to follow.