Sustainable Communities Initiative Punched In the Face? - Granite Grok

Sustainable Communities Initiative Punched In the Face?

Square-Peg-round  hole why you cant force diversityThe Sustainable Communities Initiative, part of Agenda 21, and locally known (in New Hampshire) as Granite State Future, uses Regional planning to con communities into signing on to a host of mandates with the promise or rewards.  The Faustian bargain separates taxpayers from elected decision makers who get cut out of the process and are inevitably forced to meet whatever arbitrary mandates HUD, EPA, and other unelected agencies see fit to force upon them, as it occurs to them to do it, in perpetuity, without elected officials or voters having much if any say, ever.  The end.

One of the primary legs on this many-legged stool is workforce housing and forced neighborhood diversity.  The feds come in and redefine zoning, destroying any existing notion of property rights, to control, adapt, and diversify neighborhoods to their one-size-will-fit-all-or we’ll-fine-you-cookie-cutter centrally planned template.

Well a study just released from the Michigan State University suggests that it wont work and it’s a bad idea, as if we needed a study to tell us that.

As reported in the American Journal of Community Psychology, Zachary Neal found that neighborhood integration and cohesion cannot co-exist.

“Is a better world possible? Unfortunately, these findings show it may not be possible to simultaneously create communities that are both fully integrated and fully cohesive,” Neal said. “In essence, when it comes to neighborhood desegregation and social cohesion, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

The reason has to do with how people form relationships. Neal said people usually develop relationships with others who are close rather than far away, and similar rather than different from themselves (be it through race, religion, social class, etc.).

The more integrated a neighborhood is, the less socially cohesive it becomes, and vice versa.

“These trends are so strong, it’s unlikely policy can change it,” Neal said.

MSU-edu

Centrally planned progressive social engineering will never trump human nature.  That is why socialist and communist utopias are always reduced to crime-ridden two-class dictatorial shite-holes run by an endless stream of tyrants.

And look! Computer models.  University researcher.  Must be settled science.
Let me add that the title, “Is a better world possible?” is nothing short of exasperating in it’s arrogant presumption that unless we  can convince everyone to get along with everyone else the world can’t be better.  But this is from a University Psychologist.  He doesn’t even live in the real world.  So it is not clear if he could even create a computer model that might accurately produce realistic results.
I, however, could have provided the same results, just by having observed the world and read its history.  You cannot force people to have common interests just by stuffing them into the same centrally planned social architecture.  You cannot make them mingle, no more than you can force enough people to work for so that people who do less or nothing can have some of yours.
 In fact, forced integration appears to me more likley to create friction and division, which is probably the actual goal of planners.   By intentionally destabilizing communities you create more opportunities for division, less cooperation, less resistance to the expansion of the state which grows to address issues it created through forced integration, all funded by money from your pockets.
Diversity as a natural course of human interaction can be a wonderful thing.  It’s been going on since people started trading this for that thousands of years ago.  Anywhere you find any or several collections of people with similar values or economic interests human nature creates partnerships, contracts, and associations of mutual benefit.  These succeed becasue people are free to exit them when they are no longer of any value to one or the other party, or a more beneficial relationship makes the old one obsolete.  This in turn challenges people to seek improvements to secure relationships, be they economic, social, personal, even Geo-political.
You cannot force these relationships into being and yet central planners, progressives, Democrats, primarily in the US, insist on talking about it, teaching it, and enforcing it.
None of this is new, of course.  Agenda 21, regional planning, and community initiatives are just fancy modern names for an old idea that has kept tyrants in power for centuries.   Keep the people divided by whatever means are necessary.    It is the motivation for the progressive destruction of the family, religion, and any and every other association over which the state does not have a majority control or interest.  If it could limit government abuses, advance self reliance and personal responsibility, protect property rights and therefore individual freedom, Democrats are against it.  So Democrats keep creating policy to protect their obsession with power.
And Michigan State University just explained why that policy is used to divides.  “The more integrated a neighborhood is, the less socially cohesive it becomes, and vice versa.”
Rinse, lather, and repeat.  Game over.
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