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# Sprawl Me
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4251/
- Published: 2006-03-21T00:39:39.000Z
- Updated: 2006-03-21T00:39:39.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Current Affairs, #wpChunk

Everyone hates urban sprawl, right? Nope. [Link](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer%5Fpreview.asp?idArticle=11948&R=EB9725ECE&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). At least a few neo-cons think it's a good sign that we're losing agricultural land faster than a marine recruit loses his hair. Even though I disagree with the piece, the writer raises good points. Excerpt:

> Sprawl is messy, chaotic, and sometimes annoying. In short, it is everything one expects from a free and democratic society. Leave the neat and clean societies for totalitarian regimes. Sprawl creates problems, just like every other social trend; but to damn it for its problems is akin to outlawing the sun for causing skin cancer.

> Robert Bruegmann reminds us that much of the anti-sprawl crusade is a result of a rising level of prosperity, and the complexity of millions of individual decisions made on a daily basis by millions of citizens. Better to have to deal with long commutes and strained infrastructure than malaria, cholera, or declining life expectancy.