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> thinking wilderness is required for solitude and being in a big city is not. Can't you be equally or more alone in a city? If you took the walls away, you'd
by robertlagrant 3y ago
> thinking wilderness is required for solitude and being in a big city is not. Can't you be equally or more alone in a city?
If you took the walls away, you'd find you're probably standing very close to some other people! You're not alone, any more than someone in a cube farm works in a very large private office.
- throwaway290 3y ago> If you took the walls away, you'd find you're probably standing very close to some other people! You're not alone, any more than someone in a cube farm works in a very large private office. That's what the article gets wrong too. Whether you are in solitude is not a metric of "distance to the next person disregarding obstacles". I am much less likely to talk or acknowledge my neighbor than my friend a thousand miles away in another country or a nosy passer by on a trekking track. I don't even know what my neighbors look like.