"...The "Great Revolt," as Salena Zito explains it, describes a political realignment aimed at revitalizing broken communities.
Yet according to a groundbreaking new film, the true answer to urban decay, broken families, and ballooning debt from dependence on social programs isn't more government but a return to the traditional sources of meaning: faith, family, work, and community.
Filmmaker Christopher Rufo traveled to three crumbling American cities — Youngstown, Ohio; Memphis, Tenn.; and Stockton, Calif. — and documented the deep human struggles of communities left behind as the 1950s industrial boom yielded to a new kind of economy in the 21st century.
America Lost explains why top-down government solutions fail to address this urban decay and the film suggests a better path forward.
..."While making America Lost, I witnessed another model: communities have stopped waiting for solutions from D.C. and started to take their destiny into their own hands...
...America Lost represents the culmination of 5 years of research on Rufo's part, exploring the "lost American interior."...
Read all.
Tyler O'Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
No comments:
Post a Comment