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Surviving until what? They get back to civilization, where their family and friends all still live? We all live in community of one scale or another, exceptin
by Frondo 12y ago
Surviving until what? They get back to civilization, where their family and friends all still live?
We all live in community of one scale or another, excepting, like I said, those rare few who live entirely off the grid. We're not just individuals, we're also members of that community. That's part of the human condition.
It just makes a lot of business sense to propagandize the individualism (so we buy more junk we don't need, placidly take working conditions instead of banding together to change them, etc), so that's what you see.
- alphapapa 12y agoI think you're both right. Those rugged rural folks may live a few miles apart, but they know their neighbors better than people who live in apartment buildings, and when bad things happen, they pull together. In contrast, many people in apartment buildings wouldn't trust their neighbors to pick up their mail.
- Frondo 12y agoDepends on the apartments, depends on the rural community, I'm sure. Most places I've lived, I've made an effort to get to know people, and I'd trust them to pick up my mail, I'd feel like I could pull together with them. But, I've always lived in medium-to-large cities, and mostly in apartments, so from my perspective, this image of cities-as-isolating-rural-as-friendly seems more like a sentimental anti-city caricature than anything matching reality.