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The best thing about a city is the forced contact with people who are radically different with each other. Only with time spent together can you begin to unders
by hkmurakami 10y ago
The best thing about a city is the forced contact with people who are radically different with each other. Only with time spent together can you begin to understand one another [1]. Given the vitrol and hatred being dished out between disparate groups around the country and the world, making city life affordable has an undeniable macro-level social good aspect to it.
[1] one reason why many of us are hopefuly that the Internet will increase our contact with others around the world with radically different upbringings and world views from our own, helping us understand and empathize with one another better.
- ihsw 10y agoSorry but this feelgood empathy-saves-us-all stuff really irks me, frankly I'm not convinced the world will suddenly get better if we all learn to communicate our feelings more effectively. There are plenty I wouldn't bother saving in a life-threatening scenario, and they're perfectly normal people that I just happen to have fundamental disagreements with. That said, I think we are witnessing the effects of your ethno-emotional proposal -- we are all forced to confront each-other's differences as we all come online and the world is convulsing. The internet is amplifying hatred and fear rather than dispelling it.
- muninn_ 10y agoThat's because the Internet does not require human contact. We all act differently in person than from behind a keyboard and a Wi-Fi connection.