The host committee is tutoring thousands of volunteers to “say nice things about Detroit” when encountering visitors.

Another effort is trying to help the homeless leave the streets for shelters on Super Bowl Weekend. One shelter, the Detroit Rescue Mission, plans a three-day Super Bowl party with food and four big-screen television sets. Experts estimate that 3,000 or more homeless people are on the streets at any one time, with up to a total of 13,000 homeless people


Are you kidding me?? Say “nice things”? Hide the homeless?

Pelevin’s Homo Zapiens refers to those who are specifically dispatched to uphold the simulated reality as The People’s Will. These individuals are sent out to make claims that they know to be false in an effort to uphold a material reality that doesn’t exist. That, of course, is post-Soviet Russia and nothing that insidious would happen in our dear motor city.

Hiding the homeless, sweeping them under the mat, is one ridiculous example of what can be summed up as “liberalism not revolution.” Closing your eyes to Detroit’s decaying structures, both physical and economic, does not make them disappear. You are not playing peek-a-boo!

Here is the full NyTimes article; the link will work only for a week or so before it becomes archived.