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<p>Mary and I (previous to this cooling down of busy-ness) used to
have the tongue-in-cheek observation "why is it OTHER people are
traffic?", making reference to how we all resent the *other*
people going about *their* business impeding/detracting-from OUR
business?</p>
<p>My Euro colleagues (Matt and Janire) are at mutual odds on the
topic... he grew up in the suburbs of London and finds our rural
lifestyle appealing while she grew up in a small village in Spain,
entering the hustle and bustle by "sneaking off to college"
against her parent's preference (facilitated by an aunt in Seville
who boarded her for her undergraduate) and now MUCH preferring
"cafe culture" if/when she can find it. They travel the world
and enjoy hyperactive urban culture all over Europe, some North
America and some Middle and far East. They live in Cardiff Wales
which barely provides the city's best for them sometimes. But
they've sequestered in their industrial workspace for the
duration, getting huge amounts of overdue projects done while
commissions lag entirely... They both indicate they wish they'd
been here visiting us (where they often inhabit our primitive
guest-quarters, a 16' yurt) when things locked down.</p>
<p>I truly enjoy time in various big cities, but only as a "good
place to visit". The year I lived in Berkeley for a year, my dog
made it clear to me what bothered me about "city life" the most.
Every time there'd be a sound, we would both alert. In the
country, everything you see or hear is your business, in the city
virtually NONE of it is. Whether it is the homeless going
through my recycle at the curb for returnables, or a siren or
someone yelling (anger or revelry) one block over, it really was
NONE of my business. That is a hard habit to shift.</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/20 3:18 PM, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal">I want to have the city with no people.
And it was like that for a wonderful moment! The underlying
principle being Familiarity Breeds Contempt. In the country,
the contempt is still there, but it is worse because one is
bored by the same cast of characters.<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam
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Schiltz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gary@naturesvisualarts.com"><gary@naturesvisualarts.com></a><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 1:55 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] More distraction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steve, with tongue only partially in
cheek, I have to say I often sympathize with those views.
The fact is, despite being somewhat of an intellectual (I
hope) and technically savvy guy, I have little use for large
cities and would be fine seeing them go away. I grew up on a
farm, went away to college (Manhattan, Kansas, population
40K including students), lived for a time in the suburbs of
Detroit (low population density, large space between
houses), moved to Pecos, New Mexico to work in Santa Fe, and
now live in the boonies in the cloud forest of Ecuador.
Social distancing has been a way of life for me :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:46 PM Steve
Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Merle -<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Is this of your coinage? As a word monger (munger?) I
do appreciate it's aptness for the moment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">One
definition offered is "the bitter pleasure of
things going wrong in exactly the way you
predicted but no one believed you when it could
have made a difference."
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<p>However...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think like many sharp things, it cuts both ways.
I'm sure there are any number of Red Staters (with or
with Red MAGA hats) saying emphatically "I TOLE YA!"
about the complement of things that Blue Staters (with
or without Bernie or Biden 2020 hats) are saying.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Remember, my sympathies are mostly with the Blue Caps,
but...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>People living in small, remote, rural towns where the
social distancing is built in somewhat and where R0 is
naturally lower (and subsequent rates of infection)
than in say downtown NYC or Rome or Tehran or Delhi or
Tokyo, may be saying "see I TOLE YA that citified living
is dangerous" or the same people who might only take
one airline flight in a year or decade or lifetime might
say "see I TOLE YA that flitting all around the world is
crazy business and would lead to no good!" or even more
judgementally "see I TOLE YA excluding Furriners would
keep us safe!" or "see I TOLE YA that
office/retail/service work ain't righteous, you gotta
get yer hands dirty!"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In any case, I enjoyed Cassandrafreude and will
probably find it springing to mind for the duration...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>- Steve<o:p></o:p></p>
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