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Just another manifestation of people realising their life of metropolitan decadence is wrong, lacks meaning and is damaging to the human spirit.

knownjorbist 5y ago
...while ignoring the reasons people headed in that direction in the first place.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
  heh. Truer words were never spoken.
- 3grdlurker 5y ago
  To participate in consumerism and capitalism, correct?
  - Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago
    Lack of opportunity? Poverty? Disease? Broken homes? War? Sexual/physical/emotional/spiritual abuse? To make new connections? To find a partner? To explore the wider world? Surely not!
    - 3grdlurker 5y ago
      You can’t have lack of opportunity, poverty, diseases, broken homes, war, and domestic abuse in a city? I don’t get your point and the blind defensiveness. If I’m not being a hypocrite I certainly moved to the city for the comforts of the modern world, but I’ve learned a lot since to learn that consumerism is wrong and there’s much that needs to be changed about capitalism.
- asdff 5y ago
  Which was to have labor close to the factory and then the office, which now exists on zoom.
  - knownjorbist 5y ago
    Gosh, no. It's because roughing it actually sucks if your survival is truly at stake. Right now you don't have to know anything about how to survive in order to survive. You just need to trade some of your time for money, somewhere, somehow.
toofy 5y ago
This reads as if it’s written by someone who has bought into the imagined influencer sanitized idea of rural life which thoroughly ignores the _many_ reasons people move away from rural areas. I mean, even just the idea that people outside of cities somehow have more “human spirit” is kind of strange and absurd.
optimalsolver 5y ago
>metropolitan decadence New band name!
- rchaud 5y ago
  Is "urban elites" already taken? because this sounds like the exact same thing.

knownjorbist 5y ago

...while ignoring the reasons people headed in that direction in the first place.

HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
heh. Truer words were never spoken.
3grdlurker 5y ago
To participate in consumerism and capitalism, correct?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago
  Lack of opportunity? Poverty? Disease? Broken homes? War? Sexual/physical/emotional/spiritual abuse? To make new connections? To find a partner? To explore the wider world? Surely not!
  - 3grdlurker 5y ago
    You can’t have lack of opportunity, poverty, diseases, broken homes, war, and domestic abuse in a city? I don’t get your point and the blind defensiveness. If I’m not being a hypocrite I certainly moved to the city for the comforts of the modern world, but I’ve learned a lot since to learn that consumerism is wrong and there’s much that needs to be changed about capitalism.
asdff 5y ago
Which was to have labor close to the factory and then the office, which now exists on zoom.
- knownjorbist 5y ago
  Gosh, no. It's because roughing it actually sucks if your survival is truly at stake. Right now you don't have to know anything about how to survive in order to survive. You just need to trade some of your time for money, somewhere, somehow.

toofy 5y ago

This reads as if it’s written by someone who has bought into the imagined influencer sanitized idea of rural life which thoroughly ignores the _many_ reasons people move away from rural areas. I mean, even just the idea that people outside of cities somehow have more “human spirit” is kind of strange and absurd.

optimalsolver 5y ago

>metropolitan decadence New band name!

rchaud 5y ago
Is "urban elites" already taken? because this sounds like the exact same thing.