So many "thinkers" in the past 50 years still stuck on Europe and the USA/Anglosphere
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When they talk about Japan--or Taiwan, or South Korea, etc--there's always a sense that they're talking about some alien planet
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That is, no matter how descriptive they are, there's no sense that they have anything we could learn from
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So, newsflash: since at least 1964, Tokyo has been the most important city in the world, technologically and economically speaking
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In Tokyo's wake, a network of other East Asian cities have rapidly industrialized and grown prosperous
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If you want to solve the practical problems of city life in the 21st century, you have to pay attention to the cities that are solving them
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This is directly relevant for me because of the conversation around public transit--everyone's idealizing European systems
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Never mind that Japanese transit turns a profit, carries far more people, fuels a local rail industry that exports worldwide
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the crackers?
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how i choose to interpret that tweet nonsensicallypic.twitter.com/i92aw8i0n8
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lmao nice
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