Assistant to Mayor Baker, John Rago, is upset that Parenting magazine listed Wilmington as the most dangerous city in America…If the shoe fits, Mr. Rago. Or maybe where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Or how about, let’s call a spade a spade. Maybe you should get out and talk to the residents of the city you serve and you might discover that they think it’s a dangerous place to live too. You certainly can’t be paying attention to the increased gun violence this year and the subsequent rallies by residents calling on the city to act! No, you and Mayor Baker are more worried about a dozen+ Occupy Delaware tent protesters encamped at Spencer Plaza. This administration needs to spend more time on actually fixing the problems in the City than it does worrying about the image of the City and of the Mayor. Fixing the former will solve the latter.
Occupy Delaware
The people united, can never be defeated.
“The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—that engenders the territory.” Baudrillard’s observation. Thing is, this isn’t news, it’s not new. People have always been this way. We can’t handle the truth. So, no biggie, Occupy affirms we can deal with that, that aspect of being human. We don’t need to victimize ourselves with it. It’s useful sometimes, sometimes very destructive. Be that way to dream. Put it aside to do, check. So to act with the insight the model provides, move into the territory with the map, the better to see it.