You can meet new people every day -- who all have exactly the same post-modern, woke outlook and opinions. IMHO, NY City is the most group-think place on earth. I've seen more diversity of opinion and openness to different ideas in Islamic schools in Egypt than one sees among NY City hipsters.
“You can meet new people every day — who all have exactly the same post-modern, woke outlook and opinions.”
People in New York and New England think they are so open minded and well informed. I remember asking them where they have traveled in the US and many had never been outside New England and Florida. They talk about their fabulous schools. They were all group think.
I remember attending dinners with couples with pre-teens and their whole focus was getting their kids in enough activities so they could get their kids in a good college. They themselves talked about where they went to college and what other classmates were doing. It was like being on another planet.
“I’ve seen more diversity of opinion and openness to different ideas in Islamic schools in Egypt than one sees among NY City hipsters.”
OH SNAP!!
If you hate people, New York City is a great place to get lost in a crowd of strangers. You can avoid all of them. You'll never have to meet someone twice. You don't even make eye contact with them.
You don't have to be a part of an actual culture. The city is hostile to raising children. No families - no culture. Instead, you can window shop and pick what you like from a facsimile of actual cultures and smugly tell yourself to tourists and those in "flyover country" that you're cultured. You can ignore the garbage, the urine, and the physical graffiti. It's the Capitol of Cognitive Dissonance.
New York City is a great place for someone who needs to blame others for their own failures, lest their core be shattered. NO ONE will hold you accountable for anything.
If you hate yourself, New York City is a great place to blend in with others who hate themselves too... and do they hate themselves. They'll think nothing of dragging you down with them. How dare you step outside their misery?
New York City is a great place to meet so many other Toddlers With Adult Bodies (TWABs). It's Never Never Land and you can remain a perpetual toddler. You can backslide into Leftism which is institutionalized there. You'll never have to take the red pill.
You can live a parasitic to semi-parasitic lifestyle where someone else will think for you, do for you, emote for you, often at a very expensive price paid for by others against their will.
You can spend your days in a fully artificial reality, surrounded by those who parrot what their television tells them. New York City is a man-made institution, a machine, largely purposed to avoiding truths.
There's a reason why television and stage are centered in New York City; it's a collection of wannabe actors, some unaware of this desire, who desperately want someone else to think for them.
"Everybody, everybody everywhere has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don't know that is what they're trapped by, their little script." - Tom Wolfe
The denizens of New York City don't want to know.