July 28, 2022 – Click here to listen
We are paying more at the gas pump while the Saudis get richer. It seems that all that money has given them time to think up ways to spend it that seem to come out of a sci-fi movie.
Interestingly they are touting a futuristic city proposal that is contained in one building. It is no ordinary building however, it’s 650 feet wide and 1600 feet high. The ambitious project is planned to stretch for just under 106 miles long. The project’s website claims that once it is completed, the city will be home to some 9 million residents on a total footprint of just over 21 square miles. The project simply referred to as “The Line,” is a smart megacity project being proposed in the planned city of Neom, in the northwestern part of the country. The project’s website claims that once it is completed, the city will be home to some 9 million residents on a total footprint of just over 21 miles. Egad!
The website promotes the futuristic megacity as operating on 100% renewable energy and preserving 95% of the surrounding land for nature. The city will be built as a series of individual nodes connected by a high-speed rail system that can travel the length of the city in just 20 minutes. The city is divided into three layers: two layers underground for transportation and infrastructure, and the surface layer, which will be exclusively for pedestrians. There will be no cars or roads, and the website claims that all residents will be able to access their daily necessities within 5-minute walk neighborhoods. The city will also be driven by AI technology. The promotional video says that services will be autonomous, and artificial intelligence, working with data analysis and predictive models, will figure out ways to improve daily life.
The website also touts the city’s micro-climate, created by “natural ventilation,” creating the “ideal climate all-year-round.” The promotional video further explains that the city will be surrounded by a mirrored glass facade, and will provide “equitable views” and an “immediate access to nature.” The renderings of the mirrored building are quite spectacular, and it will probably be nice to visit, but would you want to live there?
Response has varied, “I’d rather be dead than live in something like this,” The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote.
Michael Knowles added. “If we can build it on the southern border, Mohammad bin Salman deserves a Nobel Prize.” And my favorite, “I never seen something more dystopian,” user @adara_salim tweeted. “Saudi Arabia figured out a way to cram all the city-dwelling libs into a giant wall that they never have to leave and convinced them it’s really cool and progressive.”
For those of you who don’t know what dystopian means here you go: Relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. LOL
Can you imagine living with 9 million libs within 21 square miles? Give me my farm in rural Mississippi and my God-fearing, family-loving, patriotic neighbors in a place where I can breathe God-given air and watch His creatures up close and personal. Yes it will get hot and humid and cold and sometimes the wind will blow but that is what God created and I like it. This “Saudi kingdom” reminds me of Babylon. See if you can find it on the map . . .
Jeremiah 51:53
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord.