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- Jul 7, 2021
I think the main reason suburbs horrify me so much is because they insulate and comfort people to the point where they never have to think about their surroundings. Like so many of these conspiracist nutjobs are terminally online suburban middle class people.It doesn't matter what they did or how hard they pushed or didn't push, it still would have happened because there are too many people making a lot of money spreading anti-vax shit.
They don't even have a good idea of life right now. Look at the way they constantly frame the vaccine issue as not "blindly trusting experts" and call anyone who listens to covid-related public health advice "sheep," unlike their wise and skeptical selves who don't trust experts at all. They don't realize that they are literally "trusting experts" every day of their life from the moment they wake up. Do they boil and treat all their water because they don't trust their municipal water authority? Do they carry out structural testing on every building they enter or bridge they cross because they don't trust engineers? Do they grow and can all their own food because they don't trust food safety inspections?
Do they ever think about where all the stormwater goes when it rains and why it doesn't flood their street even if they live in a suburb full of impermeable surfaces? Or about who designs and conducts tests to make sure the tires they bought last week weren't made with shoddy cost-cutting material so they blow out on the highway and kill them? Who is conducting and planning monitoring and maintenance on gas supply lines so that their block doesn't blow up one day?
Of course they don't. Tires come from the store, water comes from the tap, gas appears when you turn the stove on and stops when you turn it off, buildings stay up. Most don't think about it any more than that, because they're fucking retards who have no idea that the relative safety and ease of their modern lifestyle is made possible by the "experts" they hate so much. They're too mentally stagnant to even be curious about what goes into managing modern society behind the scenes.
It's the same reason they are constantly parroting complaints about "government regulations" and cheered when Trump "cut red tape" even though that sort of deregulation is almost always pushed by big businesses who benefit financially from looser safety and environmental standards, and does nothing but harm to the average person.
In the city, you interact with a lot of diverse people all of the time, in rural areas you interact more with nature and/or a small local community. Both of which tend to produce more sane, grounded people.
Obviously city vs rural people aren't going to agree, but their views legitimately reflect an outlook gleaned from real experience. In a suburb, you can live your whole fucking life barely thinking about your surroundings or how anything around you actually works.
You never have to do home maintenance because you can just call a handyman, never have to think about transportation or walkability because just get in the car lol. The internet is fast and you probably have decent access to local services and necessities. You have a polished, artificial type of "nature" without the toughness of wilderness or the nuisance of subway rats and cockroaches.