Self-Organizing Man

 

I had the pleasure of taking a trip to Miami, Miami Beach and Key West. Miami will be America’s city of the 21st century. The citizen’s look to Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean, Central and South American countries for business and pleasure. The city has a vibe and aesthetic, history and tradition all its own.

That the wealthy folks fleeing Castro’s Cuba run Miami is a fact. Business transactions occur entirely in Spanish. I like that part, that such a “white” country as America will be led by Spanish in the upcoming decades.

But much growth means the poor suffer.

The photo above was taken at outdoor exhibit on the edge of Miami’s newly renovated, regentrified and “rediscovered” Design District. The goto place for design in the 1930s, my sources said, “then Miami went to sleep for seventy years and only recently woke up.” (With a vengence. Where else can one buy a $50,000 coffee table in a historically renovated Art Deco building?)

But I think the poor have always been awake.