>>I wonder if population density is a factor here. There is a reason that the most pathological of societal forces are concentrated in large cities.
Not really. That’s a contributor, but the real factor is comfort and accessibility of products and services. In a modern, developed nation the cities have everything and it is just around the corner.
The people in their suits and hipster clothing look down on the sanitation or utility workers who labor in their midst. Basically, the modern city makes it inhabitants forget the skills that made cities possible.
The government and corporate decision-makers keep the masses infantile by bringing in the “immigrant” labor that doesn’t mind the work has the skills, and works cheap. That makes the infantile residents even worse since it teaches them that actual work IS the duty of foreigners.
That makes them also feel guilty so they overcompensate by insisting that these foreign laborers are not only noble in their causes, but are oppressed by other people which led to them coming to the city to be saved by the enlightened infantile residents.
Our comfortable, modern life is doomed to being destroyed by people who can exist without it. And our decision-makers will insure it.
Entirely too clear and too true.
Not really. That’s a contributor, but the real factor is comfort and accessibility of products and services. In a modern, developed nation the cities have everything and it is just around the corner.
Check my reply #98. In the population density experiments, the mice had everything they needed. The issues that arose were purely psychological, aberrant behaviors resulting from pressures of high population density. Humans are psychologically more complex than mice, hence our dysfunctions are proportionately more complex. But the same dynamics are at work. We have so much open space, why do so many coop themselves up in cities?