the free style

As if there hasn’t been enough talk about THE Chrysler ad. But as usual, Jim Russell makes a pretty darn good argument; intelligent, and worth reading. On his blog, Burgh Diaspora, he’s always intelligent, and often has something about Millennials and their pesky work/life habits worth thinking about. 

Postscript: In the ad, the narrator uses the phrase “to hell and back.” Is Detroit actually back from hell? Is it still in purgatory? Just curious. 

This is fascinating to me—how difficult is it, how much suffering must occur for a town to completely lose it’s history and origin. This is especially interesting in light of NPR’s recent controversial coverage of DC’s status as a ‘Chocolate City’. Also makes me wonder what the spirit of a city, so beautifully illustrated in Chrysler’s Imported from Detroit, means over time and how it changes over time, and where it goes if it is lost.