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So who told Roman nobility to pretend they liked to live in their own houses and forced them out of lovely insulae with all the people living nearby and music a
by pandaman 5y ago
So who told Roman nobility to pretend they liked to live in their own houses and forced them out of lovely insulae with all the people living nearby and music and social life? I am guessing the "corporate media" is telling this to the people now, but who had been doing this all through the history before the printing press had been invented?
- acdha 5y agoSure, lots of people want to live like nobility but that doesn’t make it practical. Consider that when I wrote “the ideal” I was referring to the practicality of having a single style pushed as the goal for everyone. I don’t think suburbs should be banned but I do think they should be sustainably self-funding and that cities should reverse course and favor their own residents over car commuters.
- pandaman 5y agoI am not arguing practicality, I was just curious about the whole idea that people don't actually like to live separately and had been tricked into liking that by some unnamed forces. Obviously many people cannot afford the lifestyle they desire, I dare say nobody can. Even Elon Musk probably wants to live in a flying castle on Mars yet he has to make do with various mansions on Earth, such is life.