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I think you have to distinguish Sensate decay from Ideational decay to use Sorokin’s terms. New York had a trough and peak of Sensate decay/revival and is now in terminal Ideational decay. SF, LA, Seattle, Portland are still Ideationally alive, but in a deepening Sensate trough
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I don’t think New York is the archetypal “real city” anymore. It’s entered its mannerist-baroque phase. A sign is that shows set in New York now seem like parodies of shows set in New York.
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Interesting. Not familiar with the Sorokin idea but will check that out. Id still argue that NYC *represents* the real city in US even though its not (as I argued in the Refactor Camp talk etc). But maybe internet has killed the idea of a real city hence the tv representation now
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The show The Neighborhood has an interesting LA archetype city vibe. It is clearly neither the downtown NY or Long Island suburban vibe. The lower-middle-class black-and-white neighbor setup is closer to what we used to see in Midwest shows
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