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The fact we are all on the subway for the same basic purpose subliminally provides a democratizing, unifying and human environment. The person next to you is d
by gz5 9y ago
The fact we are all on the subway for the same basic purpose subliminally provides a democratizing, unifying and human environment.
The person next to you is different than you but is also the same as you. The person is real - not a media concocted persona based on how the person may look, what groups he may belong to or how the media interprets and communicates her assumed motivations.
Digital is great but there are still 24 hours in the day, so the opportunity cost for many of us, including me, is often human interaction. I for one am trying to increase my time with humans on the R train, and decrease my time with personas on social media.
- humanrebar 9y agoI don't know. It's hard to feel magnanimous when you have an armpit in your face and someone else is blocking the door to get off the train. > human interaction Honestly, my relationship with the person next to me on the train feels more like the relationship between two cows on a cattle car. Maybe you're riding a different line at a different time of day or something.
- mc32 9y agoI feel the same way with the exception of traveling as a tourist and you're taking more time to know and absorb your surrounds. In most other cases the cattle car cows analogy is pretty apt.
- theWatcher37 9y agoExcept from an individual experience a train is one of the least efficient methods of travel. Long waits at each stop, and tons of stops in between me and my destination, never reaching top speed for Long... Meanwhile when it does stop I still need a car or bus to get to my destination. This is true in European cities as well, where the stop count gets absurd.
- twobyfour 9y agoWith all the stops it's still way faster than driving through midtown at rush hour. And I don't know where you're going in NY or whether you're capable of walking, but pretty much any destination in Manhattan and large swaths of the outer boroughs are within a 10 minute walk of the subway. I would not count that as needing a car or bus to get to your destination.