Episode 117: Clean Trains — In just about every movie set in New York City in the 1970s and 80s there’s an establishing shot with a graffiti-covered subway. That graffiti was like illegible technicolor hieroglyphics—a language that even most New Yorkers couldn’t read. — http://99percentinvisible.org/episode...
“For decades, authorities treated subway graffiti like it was a sanitation issue. Gunn believed that graffiti was a symptom of larger systemic problems. After all, trains were derailing nearly every two weeks. In 1981 there were 1,800 subway car fires—that’s nearly five a day, every day of the year! ¶
When Gunn launched his “Clean Trains” program, it was not only about cleaning up the trains aesthetically, but making them function well, too. Clean trains, Gunn believed, would be a symbol of a rehabilitated transit system. ¶
Systemically, train line by train line, Gunn took the subways off the map for graffiti writers. While they were fixing it, they didn’t allow any graffiti on it. If graffiti artists “bombed” a train car, the MTA pulled it from the system. Even during rush hour.” • #стайность ∙ #разбитые_окна - × × ×
Получается общая игра в месть друг другу и сжигание маны на площадях, торжество тролля. И когда люди в окна смотрят, видят незапрошенный мета-анализ повсюду, они заранее понимают, что если что-то делаешь, то троллей держи от себя подальше, хоть вилами, хоть блоком. В итоге никто никому ничего старается не рассказывать на улице, чтобы не докапывались, только по кухням и по личному знакомству. • #manaback ∙ #доверие - urbansheep@gmail.com