I mean, I'm not a major fan of developments and HOAs. That's still fucking awful (fuck HOAs, grow corn in your front yard). But that doesn't mean I'm going to suddenly support urbanite crap that's never going to be "48 people and 29 trees" (because all that space will be taken for you to live in your shitty pod apartments).
Urbanites hate what they can never have, so they have to develop these copes and argue that actually, it's a good thing they have no space to themselves besides 12 square feet. They have to convince themselves that it's great having to rely on public transport. They have to convince themselves that on top of all of this, it's a good thing that they rent and pay thousands for the privilege of their 12 square feet.
Urbanites need these memes to justify living in the least environmentally friendly places on the planet.
Urbanites need these memes to justify living in the least environmentally friendly places on the planet
To these people there is no such thing as a trade-off or differences in priorities, because they have the correct priorities so it makes no sense to make a trade-off. It can't be a case of, "I prefer my way of living, they prefer theirs, and that's ok." It has to be, "My way of living is unquestionably superior, and I have to enforce it on everyone else."
I mean, I'm not a major fan of developments and HOAs. That's still fucking awful (fuck HOAs, grow corn in your front yard). But that doesn't mean I'm going to suddenly support urbanite crap that's never going to be "48 people and 29 trees" (because all that space will be taken for you to live in your shitty
podapartments).Urbanites hate what they can never have, so they have to develop these copes and argue that actually, it's a good thing they have no space to themselves besides 12 square feet. They have to convince themselves that it's great having to rely on public transport. They have to convince themselves that on top of all of this, it's a good thing that they rent and pay thousands for the privilege of their 12 square feet.
Urbanites need these memes to justify living in the least environmentally friendly places on the planet.
To these people there is no such thing as a trade-off or differences in priorities, because they have the correct priorities so it makes no sense to make a trade-off. It can't be a case of, "I prefer my way of living, they prefer theirs, and that's ok." It has to be, "My way of living is unquestionably superior, and I have to enforce it on everyone else."