I like going for walks at night. It’s a thing I do, especially in the summer when it’s too hot to move while the sun is out. I’m acutely aware how unusual and precious it is for a woman to be completely comfortable, unafraid, and free on dark, silent streets. I want my daughter and then her daughter to have this. An enormous effort of civilization went into making this very unnatural and very beautiful reality possible.
We can’t make everybody else on the planet live like this. And we shouldn’t try. But neither should we give it up. It’s such a wonderful thing. Let’s do everything to keep it.
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Didn’t you know you’re participating in oppression for wanting to go on quiet long walks in your neighborhood? It’s funny that the woke are unironically more correct on many issues lol. Uncivilized people cannot live in silence Silence brings thought and introspection all of which are completely alien to them.
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This is so much on the nose, it’s funny.
Littering, too, is part of it. Disordered, chaotic minds turn their surroundings into a replica of what’s going on inside. This is not a function of poverty. Many people who are poor are obsessively clean and lead well-ordered lives. It’s the poverty of spirit that needs to turn everything into a garbage heap.
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I read the Atlantic article, and of course one can only feel pity for the deluded young thing who wrote it and is apparently oblivious to all sorts of considerate and enlightening reflections on the sociological and cultural implications of her being offered the chance to experience an Ivy League education instead of meandering into all sorts of Woke banalities, which may only be of interest to the Wokerati who are, indeed, the backbone of The Atlantic’s readership.
Apart from that, which is by the by, the question remains: why are the uncultivated and those in the lower social classes so loud? How can they be so inured to noise which – it is a well-known fact – is very harmful to general health and in particular to mental wellbeing? What is it that makes them prone to shouting and screaming and in general to keeping a very high tone of voice and not only not noticing it but even enjoying it?
I’d be interested to know from any of your readers of any serious scientific and/or sociological studies to which they can direct me.
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It might be as simple as nobody told them to keep the noise down. Civilization and refinement have to be taught. Otherwise everybody would live in filth and clatter and not notice it.
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Dunno. But the well-off, city-bred branch of my family are, ironically, the ones who can’t stand quiet. I mean, they’re not vulgar or low-class and they don’t blast music in the driveway or get in loud public fights or anything, but they seriously have the TV going every waking hour. When I lived in the city, it took me a long time to get used to how loud they talked: for me, from the south, it registered as angry. All the time. Why are they so angry??
Also not people you could ever accuse of being intellectuals.
So… I’d reckon the dividing line is not class exactly. Possibly intelligence. Definitely upbringing. Partially geography.
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This habit of keeping the TV on all the time really weirds me out. It’s like ambient noise for some people. I have an acquaintance who does that, and it always feels strange to be sitting there, trying to talk over the TV. Like a hint that I’m interfering with her watching.
I also once brought Klara to a kid’s birthday party, and the parents immediately turned on the TV to something I find very inappropriate for that age group. Thankfully, my kid found a book and read it the entire time of the party.
The movie they had on had scenes of violence that I don’t believe are useful or necessary at this age. I’m not anti-TV but I always say it’s for when you don’t have anybody to play with.
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I don’t know what to make of it. My parents were hippies, and we didn’t have a TV growing up. My family doesn’t have a TV either. That’s a whole alien culture.
Maybe it explains why they all talk so loud 😉
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And you are right, I’ve seen hyper-educated, well-off people do it.
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What is also interesting about that Atlantic article is how distorted their idea of a poor inner city neighborhood is. It’s all so romantic. Kids laughing, music from open windows, neighbors chatting on stoops, old men playing dominoes, abuelas cooking up empanadas.
The real soundtrack of this place is a toddler crying from behind a thin wall while her strung-out single mother is beating her. It’s the relentless barking of a chained-up dog that’s never been socialized. It’s the beat-up Civic with no muffler and no plates, burning a hole in your ear drums. It’s the angry drunks yelling on the streets, hoping to find some trouble. This is what passes for “vibrancy” in the libtard imagination.
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Don’t forget the boom-boom cars blasting five swearwords per second while rattling your house windows; the wall-neighbors whose domestic quarrel you are trying to ignore, while at the same time listening carefully to determine if it’s time to call the cops so nobody gets killed; the commotion at your door at 2am as the neighbor comes home blind drunk and pissed that his key isn’t working; the kids who run around outside screaming all day for funsies because their parents have never trained them out of it; that dude who knocks on your door at 10pm asking to use your phone, as if we didn’t live in the cell phone age… I’ve lived in a couple of those neighborhoods. Couldn’t wait to leave.
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Can we please have a Tiananmen square? Or even a Kent State? Pretty please? If boomer libtards aren’t writing songs about it in the years to come, the administration’s response to the riots didn’t go far enough.
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I am ashamed to see Cuban flags at these protests, my parents’ generation of Cuban immigrants are very patriotic and pro- American and these losers think Cuba is so awesome. Unfortunately too many Latin American immigrants see the US as a giant piggy bank which owes them money, they want to make money and go home to lord it over the neighbors. I am proud of my Cuban heritage but I’m also an American from New Jersey, I don’t want any more immigrants who can’t be bothered to learn English or come here legally and turn cities into shit holes
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They’d die of rage and frustration if they had to hold the flag of “Amerikkka”.
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I could not agree more. This ability to exercise such everyday freedoms without fear does infinitely more for empowerment of women than the shrill slogan screechers advocating men-in-women restrooms could ever fathom/value.
This is the single most important reason I chose to build my career in the US and am eternally grateful for the opportunity to do so. I do not have to think twice about returning from my office at 12 am unaccompanied (Uber or even walking) — the thought is untenable back in my hometown after 6 pm in the evening!
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