this narrative contains an idealized dream-version of the past. The connections enabled by transportation and telecommunication are far better than those forced on us by circumstance of proximity, and people have never been that good at making our own entertainment.https://twitter.com/willlowthewhisp/status/1441149951086522368 …
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you know the synthesis here and yet you refuse to subdivide your land and let us all build geodesic housing on it
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The republic of letters predates the internet by 300 years, and epistolary friendships far longer. Various cities served as Schelling points for intellectuals and artisans of various stripes. I like the internet as much as anyone, but premodern life wasn't all mud huts.
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