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· 4 years ago
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“Real” is relative is it not? Most any successful creature is specialized to its environment. There are organisms that live in the crushing depths and scalding heat and total darkness of the deepest trenches on earth- rather tough. But they would not survive much better in a tree than a bird would do living in an undersea volcano.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But- here’s the difference... “real” in terms of society is... air planes. Computers. Global finance, marketing, blah blah. Unless things go very wrong it’s unlikely society is going to- it certainly isn’t the plan for the world to- shun global economics and advanced technology and culture, and live with countries largely isolated from each other like it was the last century. In fact- most of the population of the US, most developed countries- can be found living in the so called “fake world” of urban life. By numbers and percents any way. Humans tend to advance in our technology and culture at rates much higher than we observe in fish or birds.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
That doesn’t mean that people who don’t love or want to live in “urban” settings should be labeled as “relics” or forced to live like people in urban settings- it means we are different. As for tough... if we look at a sort of stereotypical view of a more rural living sort on urban life- most don’t want to or can’t put up with it either can they? We could argue the same that a person from an urban setting would not be “tough enough” to deal with challenges of a less urban setting- that many less urban folks lack the fortitude to deal with urban challenges- I mean, there’s enough people who are upset of having to keep track of 3 genders or who don’t know the difference between “Chinese food” and other “Asian food” cultures etc.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But as I say- that’s if we choose to look at things as “weaknesses” as opposed to just looking at things as being different. And really while “urban” and “non urban” “coastal” and “heart land” or whatever can be used- primarily what we are talking about is population density. When you have more people forced to share spaces with each other, to interact and effect each other- you develop social skills and ways of thinking to get along in those conditions. When those people have lots of differences between each other- you get used to dealing with people who think and live differently than you.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
And that isn’t always going to make sense to people who don’t have to deal with those things. Countries like India or Japan have INCREDIBLE population density in many places. It’s no coincidence that westerns often are confused or otherwise have trouble with customs and understanding them- because even in major, densely packed urban areas we don’t have to share so little space with so many people. It’s all relative. But in an ever changing human world- weakness is ignorance, weakness is being inflexible. These traits don’t belong to the coasts or the heart land but to individuals who can’t adapt and treat that like a virtue and not a handicap for their own self images sake.
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· 4 years ago
I want to take the opportunity to say that not once have I read a single one of your comments
guest_
· 4 years ago
Lmao. Sorry @ignorance. I could understand why- I’m always talking smack about ignorance! But I mean the concept, not you. I don’t have any problem with you.