Text: What if a sufficiently affluent country with a lot of land simply will not tolerate this sort of tight-knit communitarian living when it has the option not to? What if banging on about "living in community" is, to most people, like talking about going without air conditioning? I don't think that is true, but sometimes it feels like it is. I think a better analogy is that suburban living (and this isolated way of living which can take place in any setting) is like junk food; something that is not good for us, but which hacks our short-term pleasure centers. Something which is almost impossible to choose to refuse when we can also choose to have it.
Text: What if a sufficiently affluent country with a lot of land simply will not tolerate this sort of tight-knit communitarian living when it has the option not to? What if banging on about "living in community" is, to most people, like talking about going without air conditioning? I don't think that is true, but sometimes it feels like it is. I think a better analogy is that suburban living (and this isolated way of living which can take place in any setting) is like junk food; something that is not good for us, but which hacks our short-term pleasure centers. Something which is almost impossible to choose to refuse when we can also choose to have it.