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If you live in a city, you should read this essay: http://www.altruists.org/static/files/The%20Metropolis%20and%20Mental%20Life%20(Georg%20Simmel).htm http://w
by astazangasta 10y ago
If you live in a city, you should read this essay:
http://www.altruists.org/static/files/The%20Metropolis%20and%20Mental%20Life%20(Georg%20Simmel).htm http://www.altruists.org/static/files/The%20Metropolis%20and...
>Our psychic activity still responds to almost every impression of somebody else with a somewhat distinct feeling. The unconscious, fluid and changing character of this impression seems to result in a state of indifference. Actually this indifference would be just as unnatural as the diffusion of indiscriminate mutual suggestion would be unbearable. From both these typical dangers of the metropolis, indifference and indiscriminate suggestibility, antipathy protects us. A latent antipathy and the preparatory stage of practical antagonism effect the distances and aversions without which this mode of life could not at all be led.
- dominotw 10y agotrivial observation packaged in flowery language to sound insightful ? tl;dr: there is too much going on in the city to give a shit.
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- astazangasta 10y ago> The essence of the blasé attitude consists in the blunting of discrimination. This does not mean that the objects are not perceived, as is the case with the half-wit, but rather that the meaning and differing values of things, and thereby the things themselves, are experienced as insubstantial.
- benevol 10y agoSure, but here's the thing: The inter-subjective reflectivity of perceived para-circular linearity is subject to radial normality of the urbanoid race condition reflective of mostly pervasive stray projection, which, in 93 percent of all cases, prevails as the main subject of pre-relationary trajectory analysis, as proven by the late Phil Corytorov.
- jacobush 10y agoYes, but at least I need the flowery language sometimes to speed down my thought enough to give a shit.
- oldmanjay 10y agoIf you don't live in a city how likely is it that you care about those people in the city you wouldn't care about if you did live there?