a note to the young and optimistic

If you think you've found some cool things in your town - things that make your town different from other towns - don't get too attached to them, because the city council fuckers along with private citizen capitalists will find a way to get rid of them in the name of efficiency and huge sums of cash. If you happen to be the type of person who has to get attached to something, make it a mass-production personalityless chain coffee house, or a strip of industrial-looking traffic-clogged highway. These things don't seem to be going anywhere.