Posted by TheodoreBlack on
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What do you mean by old and new? Aesthetics? Or literal age? I can kind of see what you're getting at, but my skepticism towards the city, and I live in one now, is not with the idea itself but with many of the things associated with it. It causes distance between a person and Nature, it makes one ignorant to ones roots. It shifts the focus from the town center, historically a social and religious center with a Church, to the financial sectors of a downtown or shopping mall. One cannot see where their food is grown, or experience the freshness of occasional solitude. It also breaks down the family, and decreases self-sufficiency. The Amish detest them for a reason.

And even worse, you have the demographic danger, the expansion of the degenerates into nicer suburbs, and a Liberal political monopoly.

This is not to say I prefer some type of rural dwelling, primitivism, I think a healthy balance is needed. I think the town, or village is the best bet, within decent proximity to larger urban areas for economic reasons, but not too close to compromise autonomy.