03-14-2017, 04:59 PM
(03-14-2017, 09:34 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:(03-13-2017, 07:29 PM)Odin Wrote:(03-13-2017, 07:23 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Is the world getting bigger, figuratively speaking? If transportation and communication are getting faster/cheaper, and people are moving more, wouldn't it be more apt to say (as most people do) that the world is "getting smaller"?
Also, I know you denied it in the other thread, but the bit about rural Minnesota sounds once again like somebody wanting to get back at his peers from high school by helping tear down their world around them. Not a classy move.
No, just recognizing the flaws. I'm the kind of person who can wax nostalgically about the good things about growing up in a rural area without being in denial about the bad things.
The flaws of what, being rooted in a place? Are you equally upset at Sub-Saharan Africa for being overwhelmingly black, Japan for not taking the steps to become less Japanese?
How do you feel about gentrification?
The world of traditional rural America has been one that has been dying my whole life, and rather than accepting it and adjusting to a changing world so many people there live in a sort of denial, thinking that they can somehow turn back the clock to the 50s, but that's impossible. The world is only going to get smaller, more connected, and more urban.
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