The didactic approach to learning is the educational obstacle. To borrow from a seminal Seinfeld bit; how can we expect that sitting 'down', buckling 'down', 'down-loading' are the answer when optimism is built on the principles of 'up'. Standing 'up'... moving 'up'... onwards and upwards.

Take people who are democratically diverse... you'll have a far greater likelihood that there will be disparate approaches and, in this city... we need only find our common languages in communal landscapes.

Neo-conservatism is a futile attempt to control the cities. They feared losing the artists and abstract thinkers inside the mosaic of multi-cultural cities like ours.

How does one squelch the squelchers? En masse, in choral chant, we drown out the voices by paring with those singing a synchronous song.