Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:08:19 -0500
From: chathammatters
Subject: Control vs Freedom
Momopom wrote that: “Webster’s definition of suburban: uninteresting, conventional, ordinary, commonplace, unremarkable, unexceptional…â€
It didn’t match what I remembered of the term, so I looked it up in several dictionaries: here are the actual definitions of suburban and suburb.
sub·ur·ban adj. (s-bûrbn)
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a suburb.
2. Located or residing in a suburb.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture, customs, and manners typical of life in the suburbs.
n. A suburbanite.
sub·urb noun (ˈsə-ˌbərb)
1
a : an outlying part of a city or town
b : a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city
c plural : the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town
2 plural : the near vicinity : environs
— sub·ur·ban adjective or noun
— sub·ur·ban·ite noun
Origin of SUBURB: Middle English suburbe, from Anglo-French, from Latin suburbium, from sub- near + urbs city — more at sub-
First Known Use: 14th century
Momopom clearly doesn’t like Suburbs, fortunately she lives in a free country and can move to wherever she wants.
Sadly, we are losing our freedoms piece by piece, for example nationally, Obamacare is eliminating freedom to choose both health plans and doctors. The government has also decided that we can no longer purchase 60 and 40 watt incandescent light bulbs starting in 2014 (in just a few days), having already eliminated 75 and 100 watt bulbs in 2013.
Locally the Coalition/Pittsboro Matters is working hard to eliminate freedom of choice on our own land – they want to tell us how we will live and work, what to build and not build, what type of construction they will allow and which they won’t, what is acceptable speech and what is not (they even want to control the definition of words) – all dictated to us by a very small minority of people
Doesn’t that seem rather arrogant to you?