all aboard

All construction bids and cost estimates have a schedule of values. The first item should be called "mobilization". It seems to me the industrial revolution of 1800's Britain was the mobilization that allowed for the greatest infrastructure build-out of history. Not only were projects like the Hoover Dam, Empire State Building, roads and bridges, electrical grid and the entire water and sewer pipes of america built mostly on time and on budget, but the quality was excellent. Now much of this craft is rotting in and above ground as sedated and obese sheeple graze on the productive efforts of others before us. As my son would say "epic fail". As i re-modeled, re-configured, deconstructed and generally obsessed over the bungalows and real mansions of the 1920's @ 30's during the go-go decade of real estate boom and bust, i realized J. H. Kunstler had it partially right about his "geography of nowhere". Quality and craft died a slow death with-in the trades between 1950 and 1980 and then we proceeded to produce mostly plastic shit for structure for the last 30 years. Our precious Mcmansions will be carved into boarding houses in our soon to appear suburban ghettos. What will future generations of carpenters be thinking when they cut into these cardboard barns we called suburbia? When our society decided the architect was needed more than a master builder in the name of "code compliance", we sealed our fate. As we suffer through a ominous and brutal winter and the yuppies cruise to the firing ranges in the range rovers, many people are dealing with the fear of the future with the thought of hunkering down. I mobilize to hunkerdown elsewhere. Where the mountain lions and bear are a greater threat than the mentally institutionalized people of my home town. Choose wisely were you hunker. Good luck.