Perceptions Shift in the Urban Paridigm of Organic Solidarity
The urban environment fosters collectivism, which is of the two most common sociological paradigms of life, most urban or city dweller's perspectives are based upon that version of "a simplified life". Everything is at your fingertips; you need only walk down the block to find the butcher, the barber, and the candlestick maker. If you want to socialize there are restaurants, diners, coffee shops and bars on every few corners. Life is at your finger tips. You don't need a car, if you need to go far you can take the train, the bus, a taxi or now you can join a ride share program and just grab a car for a few hours or the weekend. Very few in the tight knit urban clusters actually make, build or create anything. The urban lifestyle is geared more toward "moving and shaking"; driving business. That is not to say that no one or no business in the city makes anything, but in fact the people who tend to live and work in the city at best just push things around; i.e. ports, trucking and distribution centers, etc. They don't actually make anything. Corporate headquarters, financial and securities traders, consultants, and paper pushers galore, this is not a criticism it just a fact. In my estimation the urban lifestyle is an extension of Emile Durkheim's Organic Society. The city is often built by consumer demand. Government offices go up, then lawyers, process servers, who deal with the city and the court. Next fast food, breakfast and lunch spots pop up to serve the government workers and the people who are there to do business with them. Bars and restaurants are next, and then people need condos, apartments and homes nearby. Remember in the city the premise is everything on top of each other optimizing space, since it is expensive, and limiting the need to have a vehicle or to walk very far to have anything. Convenience and density is taken to an extreme, everything and everyone is clustered sometimes on top of each other literally.
To a city person the urban organic society lifestyle is nirvana at least until the "machine" breaks down. The urban environment is designed and based upon its ability to source goods from elsewhere. That means that the city and its populace is totally dependent upon others for nearly every requirement for its existence. In fact most cities even buy and pipe in water from rural and mountain areas. I am not aware of a single city that produces vegetables, meat, produce, etc. within its boundaries. No source points are in the urban environment. The point of that is that in the event of another catastrophe like Sept 11, 2001 when air, sea, land, and rail traffic was halted for 5 days and longer a city and its inhabitants cannot sustain themselves.
No two people are the same, like snowflakes, each are similar, but not equal. Different people have different needs. Some of the needs are actually wants; others are specific to that person based upon issues as different as snowflakes. Yet in the city conformity is the norm. Tattoos and face rings abound largely in part to the natural human desire to be an individual. It is a weak attempt to exercise some independence in a completely dependent environment. When you decide to live in the urban environment the sheer size of the population as well as the density of the people and places quashes the interests of the individual. Often the human mind makes paradigm shifts subconsciously in order to deal with the issues lost intimacy and independence. The loss of individualism, privacy, solitude, etc. is often handled by the mind rewriting boundaries, redefining terms such as privacy, peace, intimacy and more. After a while those who live in suburban and even more so in rural areas become as foreign to an urban dweller as an Extraterrestrial Being would be if one actually presented itself to you now.
It is this series of extreme polarizing differences that has prompted me to post several articles which I highly recommend that you acquaint yourself with in the Useful Information Section under Social Philosophy.
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