The American public had by turns ignored and ridiculed it's Cassandras; city planners, ecologists, demographers, sociologists, immigrants, who had all warned against our increasing tendency to crowd into our cities. Social stress, failure of essential services and warfare were only a few of the specters we had granted a passing glance. We had always found some solution to our problems though; often at the last moment. Firmly anchored in most Americans was the tacit certainty that, even to the problem of nuclear war against population centers, there must be a uniquely American solution: we would find it.
The solution was sudden death. A hundred million Americans found it.
From Systemic Shock, chapter 19, by Dean Ing.
The solution was sudden death. A hundred million Americans found it.
From Systemic Shock, chapter 19, by Dean Ing.
