[untenured]

Sorry, I didn’t notice your “early urban” qualifier. Although there would not be today’s version of modernity without earlier modernity.

[allmendream]

I am not against either urban living or modernity. I am a Scientist and I live near L.A.. What I am against is the idea that these people are miserable without us and need us to teach them how to live, or that their life is somehow worse than what they could expect as “el Indio” in the slums of any Hispanic metropolis.