#suburbia

[americaisdead]

la cañada flintridge, calif. february 2025

© tag christof

[fuzzyghost]

[atlasspiralsss]

so real

they say i cum radiation

[queenoftheimps]

Screenshots of Kieran Culkin on The Graham Norton show, casually adding to the absolutely wild Eric Bogosian lore

[rumade]

Is your barren lawn getting you down?

Try a single allium!

You surely won't regret planting and painstakingly mowing around a single allium

[etozheden]

Welcome to “Suburban Dream” — my new build pack inspired by the charm of American suburban living! Here, you’ll find four unique homes filled with coziness, nostalgia, and a touch of modern classics.

But that’s not all you’re here for! I didn’t want to create just another speed build or house showcase, so here’s something special for you! ✨ This video immerses you in the vibe of a music video featuring an indie band from Brindleton Bay — “Black Dahlia.” It’s their debut performance, but it’s definitely not their last! 😉

Lot type: Residental Gallery ID: LosBuritos Custom Content: in the archive Download(Merged) Download: 1 ,2 ,3 ,4

[lisboncore]

night photography by dave jordano

[horrorcitos]

John Barbiaux

[craigslistpilled]

lincoln, rhode island

posted: 05-20-2023, 07:05

[twinsfawn]

WHEN THE LOW AND HEAVY SKY PRESSES ONTO YOU LIKE A LID

[descendinight]

study of picture 学习

[midnightcowb0ys]

“The Maples” photographed by Stephen A. Sheer, Shelton Connecticut, 1979

[probablyasocialecologist]

And so it makes sense that these are now the places where fascism grows; that’s what these places were designed for. The suburbs were invented as a reactionary tool against the women’s liberation and civil rights movements. The US government, in concert with banks, landowners, and home builders, created a way to try and stop all that, by separating people into single homes, removing public spaces, and ensuring that every neighborhood was segregated via redlining. The suburbs would keep white women at home, and would keep white men at work to afford that home. These were explicit goals of the designers: “No man who owns his house and lot can be a Communist,” said the creator of Levittown, the model suburb. “He has too much to do.” The reason Target has become the locus of today’s particular right-wing backlash is the same reason countless viral TikToks attempt to convince women that they’re at risk of being kidnapped every time they’re in a parking lot. It’s the reason why true crime is one of the most popular podcast genres in America, and why many refuse to travel without a gun by their side and shoot people if they set foot on their driveway.

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It is of course true that these mass hysterias are part of an organized right-wing movement that is attacking human rights across the country—through legislation banning abortion, gender-affirming care, and books, and making it illegal for educators to teach American history accurately. But the shape this movement has taken is not coincidental; it is in fact the product of the unique shape of public life in America, or lack thereof. Suburbanites do not have town squares in which to protest. They do not have streets to march down. Target has become the closest thing many have to a public forum. We often hear that urban areas are more liberal and suburban ones more conservative, and we’re often told that this is because of race. That may be partly true, though cities are whiter than ever and suburbs more diverse than ever. Instead, it may be that suburbanism itself, as an ideology, breeds reactionary thinking and turns Americans into people constantly scared of a Big Bad Other. The suburban doctrine dictates that public space be limited, and conflict-free where it exists; that private space serve only as a place of commodity exchange; that surveillance, hyper-individualism, and constant vigilance are good and normal and keep people safe. It is an ideology that extends beyond the suburbs; it infects everything. Even cities, as Sarah Schulman writes in The Gentrification of the Mind, have become places where people expect convenience and calmness over culture and community. What is a life of living in a surveilled and amenity-filled high-rise and ordering all your food and objects from the Internet to your door if not a suburban life? To make matters worse, the people who have adopted this mindset do not see it as an ideology, but as the normal and right state of the world; they, as Schulman writes, “look in the mirror and think it’s a window.” So when anything, even a gay T-shirt, disrupts their view, they become scared.

[primalpoetry]

[rueghost]

cherish your little walks with your bros 🎥