Do I Look Cool?

It's pretty rare to come across a Robert Frost quote/reference in one week, let alone the same one in different contexts aside from that dumb-ass, trite "two roads..." one. Which, considering today's world we live in, in all its forms and destructiveness, "Mending Wall" should be the one used more often. But Larry Livermore wrote an article about the new Cometbus and how Aaron's early feelings about being the core of Berkeley's society and his frustrations with being left behind by altering views by people who have come in and changed what it was or people who changed their stance for a more relaxed existence; something that's at the underlying of my feelings with living here in Omaha. Though my feelings here is there's a place that's open for acceptance, but I don't want anything to do with it. Most things are done for the wrong reasons or it ends up there and this town in general just frustrates me and I don't see it getting any better.

But in Larry's article and Jennifer Glass' Op-Ed piece in today's New York Times (about Yahoo's attempt at bringing people back to the work place to be "more productive") they both used a paraphrased Frost quote of "home is where where they have to take you in."

I talked to a friend Nick who is helping Tom build his deal down in Brownville and he told me that the main reason he picked up shop and left town was he saw the direction the Old Market was heading and didn't like it. I don't either. I don't like any direction Omaha is going. It's for the better, but I still don't appreciate it; mostly because of the mentality that goes along with it. Gentrification, money, artificial lifestyle and culture forced by trends from the coasts that they're trying to replicate five years later here, while not making any smart concessions for the burdens of the big city life here in this place. It's that Hawaii mentality where they want all the pseudo-sophistications of the mainland which does nothing for them except make them consumers of an unnecessary lifestyle while what really matters which would benefit them better, they don't want because they want to keep their "unique" image.