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Small towns make it very difficult to be an upper-middle class xenophile. Instead of constructing a personality through your consumption of exotic things, you'r
by pessimizer 3y ago
Small towns make it very difficult to be an upper-middle class xenophile. Instead of constructing a personality through your consumption of exotic things, you're left to your own devices.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoI'd prefer to phrase it as "constructing a personality by sampling from a wide variety of things so you can see what you enjoy and be less ignorant" but if you need to take jabs at a caricature of a lib to feel good about preferring small towns, go for it I guess.
- ctrlp 3y agoAnother way to think about it is as having a personality constructed for you by logging miles on the hedonic treadmill. It's possible to be ignorant by knowing too much of the wrong thing. In this case, people are trading actual integrated culture for a kind of consumer product. Hence Epcot Center. It's not about the cleanliness (who could object to things not being filthy?) It's about an ersatz existence pursuing the next thing to enjoy.
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