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The ability to say “I don’t get it but I understand how somebody else likes it, and there’s nothing wrong with that” is a sign of maturity. “How can you possibly like that?” - he calls people who don’t enjoy what he enjoys “sick” downthread - is why we have the rural/urban divide
Not the only reason, the primary one is economic. But people living in isolated, homogenous bubbles who then project that as SUPERIOR to living, say, in the place that subsidizes your isolated, homogenous bubble is destructive. And then the resentment goes the other way.
I was very lucky as a standup to travel to very isolated communities, and both realize “I could never live here” and drink with people who spoke very passionately about living there.
I also ran into some real fuckwits, so salt to taste.
I also ran into some real fuckwits, so salt to taste.
But to look at a city’s mixture of culture, access to jobs, health care, access to travel, to education, history, community and say “what, is it the retail?”, that’s the sort of snide superiority and cultural resentment some people have made into a very profitable career path.
