Get Away

This is a big choice for pondering. A lot of us are city or near city dwellers. And I think we're theoretically plugged into the notion that there is specific value to the city life, a pinnacle of some sort (there is, I won't argue against that, but rather for another thing). What I'm thinking here is that tho' the city has many marvelous offerings, it also binds you to a lot of things, takes a lot of space sacrifice (not to mention serious cash monies on rent).

So what I'm asking us to do today, is to think about not living in the city. To think about living in the very countryside. Just think for now. Think about what that would entail for your life. What sort of job would you work in the far away? What things wouldn't you be able to get that you really need to survive (e. g. hummus)? What things could you do out in the country that you couldn't in the city (a. Own a donkey. b. Make moonshine).

My thinking really is along the lines of trying to figure out why we've all opted for the city. Not just some amalgam of "cultural" availability (oohh, but in the city we have the opera...that we never go to.). I think it would interesting to see why the city has such a gravitational pull that people are willing to live near it (as in, not in it and therefore not getting some of the best benefits). It has some umbilical hold on us, like if we're more than an hour's drive away, we'll start being uncultured cretins. My friends, my cultural indoctrination has a half-life longer than a twinkies, there is no foreseeable chance of me losing that no matter where I am.

I've always felt if my friends were somewhere I could be there too, wherever it is. And as such they need to be into wherever that is (countryside) as well. The means for paradigmatically changing lives come from big summing up, overhaul thinking. Like a colossal check list for totaling sums. So this won't happen now. But it couldn't happen ever if we didn't all start thinking about it.