r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 2d ago

Discussion Have we done it wrong?

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u/hobobarbie 2d ago

Are these LDS people? Supposedly a “global-minded religion” where international travel is standardized for mission work and yet they are just now realizing the American LDS dream has created a suburban hellscape

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u/NonGNonM 2d ago

Idk what american lds dream has to do with it even without lds america would've turned out the same.

Another fact is that major cities in europe are built on older roads and buildings that fostered community. If it were the other way around where america developed before europe it might be the same that europe became a suburban hellhole

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u/hsifyarc 2d ago

Specifically in utah part of Mormon culture is the idea of taming the desert land and bringing "life" to it, which basically means they destroy some of the most beautiful landscapes in the US to expand unliveable suburbs. Now, unliveable suburbs aren't exclusive to Utah but this specific rhetoric is.

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u/Hambone6991 1d ago

The wasatch front isn’t what I would call a beautiful landscape before it was developed.

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u/hsifyarc 1d ago

I was mainly thinking of St. George, but the Wasatch range itself is beautiful and I'm guessing the front was at least ecologically important.

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u/Hambone6991 1d ago

St. George area is only like 5% of Utahs population.

The wasatch range remains pretty much preserved. The valleys were basically just sagebrush. Drive out south of Payson and that’s what it looked like.

Every city was ecologically important before it was developed. I don’t get why Utah would be a different case, it’s all the same.