It's much more than "self-serving egoists"! It's self-interested fast money that stops folks from acknowledging any research, watch any documentaries, or read any books that they perceive interferes with their potential goldmine. If you want to know how hundreds of communities are thriving outside the myopic mall/sprawl agenda you can start with these books; "Short circuit" "Superbia" and "The Small Mart Revolution". However, if you want to continue the "right" to harvest you're goldmine from the public's infrastructure beyond capacity, until your community is saturated in poverty wages and the homes they can't afford....support Bohn, Bass, and Berg and their speculator friends.
Re: “Dem Schism”
It's clear you're not the reading type.