If by "funny" you mean by design you're on to something. It's feature, not a flaw of urban design. Stalin drove villagers from their small enclaves into big cities, urban centers, easier to control, he devoted many resources to build them up for that explicit reason.
Human nature is such that when living among many we're forced to make compromises to privacy, communal sacrifices are required to live peaceably. Want to blare your music loud out in the country, have chickens and roosters, make half your law a car/tractor graveyard? Not doing it in a city. If someone came right up and stood next to you, inches away from your face on a rural roadway or even a country supply store you'd tell them to back the f off. Yet in a city we accept that will happen when riding an elevator. Personal space violations become negotiations of urban living, as do other restraints on individual rights. And so the acceptance of communal authority grows. Hence, lefties in urban areas. Even R's in urban/suburban areas are of the squishy variety.
Stalin and leftists know this about human psychology. And study it, practice it, refine it. Urbanization is the most reliable pathway to Collectivist Authoritarianism. The destruction and downtalking about rural life has been an intentional "nudge" out of individual freedom and into collectivist authoritarianism.
Behavioral Science "Nudge" is softer coercion than the point of a gun as Stalin did it. Using mass media, entertainment, movies like "Dirty Dancing" and others that portray rural life as backwards for dummies, urban life as exciting for sophisticates. "Flyover country," "bitter clingers," "baskets of deplorables" aspersions come naturally off the tongues of the urbanists, left and right.
Isn't it funny how the lefties seem to concentrate in urban areas? It will make evacuation REALLY difficult!
Maybe they're all just very lonely....LOL.
It’s bc they have no idea how the sausage is made. Easy to be like that in urban areas, not so much in rural areas
If by "funny" you mean by design you're on to something. It's feature, not a flaw of urban design. Stalin drove villagers from their small enclaves into big cities, urban centers, easier to control, he devoted many resources to build them up for that explicit reason.
Human nature is such that when living among many we're forced to make compromises to privacy, communal sacrifices are required to live peaceably. Want to blare your music loud out in the country, have chickens and roosters, make half your law a car/tractor graveyard? Not doing it in a city. If someone came right up and stood next to you, inches away from your face on a rural roadway or even a country supply store you'd tell them to back the f off. Yet in a city we accept that will happen when riding an elevator. Personal space violations become negotiations of urban living, as do other restraints on individual rights. And so the acceptance of communal authority grows. Hence, lefties in urban areas. Even R's in urban/suburban areas are of the squishy variety.
Stalin and leftists know this about human psychology. And study it, practice it, refine it. Urbanization is the most reliable pathway to Collectivist Authoritarianism. The destruction and downtalking about rural life has been an intentional "nudge" out of individual freedom and into collectivist authoritarianism.
Behavioral Science "Nudge" is softer coercion than the point of a gun as Stalin did it. Using mass media, entertainment, movies like "Dirty Dancing" and others that portray rural life as backwards for dummies, urban life as exciting for sophisticates. "Flyover country," "bitter clingers," "baskets of deplorables" aspersions come naturally off the tongues of the urbanists, left and right.