“The Future of Urban Living,” Saudi Arabia’s progressive architectural undertaking, so creatively named, “The Line,” offers a nightmarish look into the future if progressivism prevails.
There are so many things I could say about this unearthly design — but the first thing that comes to mind is actually the number of birds that will die flying into a giant mirrored glass wall build taller than the Empire State Building, 200 meters wide, and 170 km long. Already, it’s not very environmentally friendly. (See: Up to one million birds die a year by air collision with windmills.)
The Line boasts an ability to contain 9 million residents, produce zero emissions, and to house all of an individual’s needs within a 5-minute walk radius. The advertisement also claims to provide “equitable views” for everyone — because that is what really matters for their vision of a futuristic utopia. Equitable views.
Of course, this design is not entirely feasible, and even it if were, there is no guarantee (far from it) that it would operate in total harmony.
Anyone who has ever traveled to New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles or any other leftist mega city is aware that crime escalates in heavily populated areas, as opposed to say, a countryside town. The Line aims to be home to 9 million people.
To use Chicago as an example, (a heavily left-leaning city with a population reaching slightly over 2.6 million) just this past weekend, 51 people were shot and 7 were killed. If you were to scale that to 9 million people, under similar conditions, community goals, values, even firearm laws, that would equal approximately 201.6 people shot in one weekend. Utopias are fallacy for a reason.
While on the topic of addressing crime, The Line would also be located in Saudi Arabia. The middle of the Middle East. A historically violent area of the world, home to terrorist groups that uphold savagery and brutality. The Line would be a horrible invention everywhere, but in this part of the globe specifically, because it would offer one long target for offenders and criminals. The high number of people per square foot poses a significant threat to the security and safety of the residents — humans were meant to be spread out.
On a strictly psychological basis, people who live in rural areas, owning land, or simply not living one on top of the other, are on average happier than those who are cram packed into high-rise cities. Being self-sufficient rather than relying on The Line’s highly regarded “AI Technologies and automated services” would be more fulfilling, gratifying, and sustaining in the long-term.
Many cities have added faux greenery, small overly crowded parks, and superficial gyms to their concrete metropolises in attempt to create a more natural feel for residents. These measures however don’t come close to the genuine peace, serenity, and calm that living in rural areas brings.
The left will continue to progress until everyone is living in their pods, working their 9-5’s, owning no property, no vehicles, and having no true life. Our job as conservatives, is to defy that narrative that they have laid out for us, buy land, learn to grow food, have a big family, become independent and live free.
