Comment 32772

By highwater (registered) | Posted August 12, 2009 at 14:59:08

If it's lame...then do something better.

How do you know we aren't already? The creators and regular contributors to this site are doing something better. I don't know all the contributors and commenters on this site, but the ones I do know are passionately engaged in efforts large and small, to improve their community, with no thought to personal gain.

I don't see that attempting to contribute to the local community should disqualify them.

I don't either. It's their demonstrated lack of understanding and appreciation for Hamilton's urban character, and sound urban principles in general, that should disqualify them.

This is exactly what Florida meant by squelchers limiting creative input to community development.

I'm pretty sure Florida wasn't talking about taking the piss out of seeeriously lame videos when he warned against squelching. He was referring more to opposing positive, transformational changes such as LRT and cycling unfrastructure, two things DiFalco has come out against, ironically.

Of course, squelchers are also big on telling Hamiltonians that we're so pitiful, we must uncritically accept any type of investment in our city, and can't have a little light-hearted fun at the expense of lame, self-serving promotional gambits.

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