Every time I read that paragraph from below, I want to say thank you, Mark. It seems so bloody obvious. And yet there are actually people who think it’s bloody obvious that hanging all the rest of us the way to go. What’s a poor boy to do?
Anyway, Morford’s got it. Connectedness. Here’s that part again:
It was, always and forever, about connectedness. It was about how we are all in this together. It was about resisting the status quo and fighting tyrannical corporate/political power and it was about opening your consciousness and seeing new possibilities of how we can all live with something resembling actual respect for the planet, for alternative cultures, for each other. You know, all that typical hippie crap no one believes in anymore. Right?
I haven’t read the whole article, by the way. I was skimming it for a good quotation and found this near the end. The point about connectedness is so strong and clear, I decided to stop right there.
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All being in this together is part of the reason we’ve lived in a city for so long. The urban lifestyle can be a vital choice, provided you use it to connect, to be a part of a society that results, as messy and multi-faceted as it may be.
Much of the work I’ve done revolves around the idea that the urban environment can be designed in a way that accentuates the human connections, rather than forming a wall between the inhabitants and ‘out there’
Sound good! I can’t do it in a city myself (my wife could.
, but I hear you. Especially like your second paragraph, too.