The relative change in today’s culture and where it’s going

Today I went to the mall, had to walk through it to find a particular store. What I saw was completely different than what I grew up with 50 years ago. Early in my life, I had a construction job. Working on one of the anchor stores in that mall was one of my first union jobs.

Today the parking lot was full of Honda cars. The majority of the cars were white. The age group in the mall was the same but, they were all kids of different races. Just like they were 50 years ago, very few displayed tattoos. Weird hairdos with bright colors, nose-rings, body piercings, and rebellious cloths weren’t a fashionable statement. The kiosks were filled with bling items. The mall had an Apple computer store that was filled with the studious future doctors, not interested in the newest fashion. Missing from the mall were the absence of cute, blue eyed blond girls.

Cloths fashions in the store windows looked like a Kmart sale, or more time appropriate; Dollar Tree.  Creativity is void of color, black is the popular hue.

The trip to the mall today was in a different world. The races of people are not the same. Everything changes in 50 years. Out of more than a thousand people I walked by, there was not another white man. There were no cute white girls. The world where I grew up is different today.

Here’s a question for the world’s culture today that is shown by the people shopping in the stores of America today. Do the Arabians and people from India get along well with the Asians? The white Europeans seem to have driven themselves into extinct by ludicrous behavior and abortion. But, so did the communist Chinese by its forced abortion policy. Mexico was ruined by its drug cartel to feed America’s lust for consumption of debauchery.

By the looks of the mall customers, India comes in as the winner of the human race.

Now the important question: what's sustainable in today's culture?

The mall structure has survived 50 years. Buildings are generally sustainable. None of the cars were 50 years old. The parking lot has been resurfaced several times. Only one of the mall’s three anchor tenants have survived, none of the other tenants were recognizable as original. 

Sustainable lasts into survivability. In transportation, trains are a 200-year-old technology. Cars don’t survive much past 20 years. Only a few people make it to 100 years old.

What’s the culture changing to? Definitely, technology oriented. How does sustainability tie into present culture? Realistically, a sober and objective analysis has to be taken. By taking off the lens of politics and media promotion; what shows? By the walk through the mall, the center of commerce shows a younger generation malleable to carrying the pursuit of raising families. The trait of raising families is a sustainable tradition.

Knowing that all urban growth is based on its primary source of transportation, are the politics of social orientation relevant? Urban growth is the inevitable consequence to the increase in population. Technology continues its pursuit for advancing intellect. Transportation is a necessary component for the progression in technology. It’s the belief of CATTCC that transportation provides the next paradigm in technological advance. It’s also the needed component for sustainability.

Culture’s current attitude for transportation

What’s the culture’s attitude for transportation? The younger generations are moving further away from cars as a status symbol. Kids today aren’t pushed by their peers to have a car at 16. Most kids don’t even get their drivers license at 16. They wait until 18 or longer. It isn’t important. This brings opportunity for advanced transit technology systems and transit oriented land-use growth design.

Given the cultural outlook for transportation, what will it take to shift away from the automobile centric land-use design to the transit-oriented land-use design? Private sector involvement is essential. A private sector advanced transit technology company has to partner as a joint venture with the government.

The public can’t assume its government will automatically implement a modern transportation technology. Bureaucracy only follows procedure, fundamentally incapable of innovation.

Nearly all Western Society is base upon the automobile centric land-use design. This is a dependence to the automobile. with

Nearly all Westen Society is base upon the automobile centric land-use design. A dependence on the car, built the car culture. With the unsustainable nature of the automobile centric land-use design, the mall clientele represents a lack of interest as a car being the culture’s focus.

What is present in all civilized society is an addiction to technology. The youth have been weaned from cars but, what appears is a heavy dependency to the smart phone. It clings to the young and old like a garment. Communication is important. Information is important.

The level of importance for transportation to expand with technology will continue to grow, as society continues.