>>1683360Insightful.
Also, urban dwellers rely on nature for their existence - fresh water, air, food. Living an entire life away from the source of what sustains you leads to lack of understanding of how important these things are, and an inability to adapt/survive if they are ever interrupted.
As other posters mentioned, urban folks can sometimes seem to have weird logic and priorities, and I think a lot stems from this disconnect.
With zero concept of the journey the produce on your local store shelf undertook before arriving there, you’re inevitably going to sleepwalk into a fragile, unthinkingly dependent way of existing. Which is fine for as long as those products keep on arriving on the shelf. It’s a problem as soon as it doesn’t, which on a multi-generational timescale is pretty much guaranteed to occur in most places.
Same for the clean air you breathe, the clean water you drink, and the transport infrastructure that all of this depends upon. Living at urban densities requires constant human input to ensure their maintenance and therefore the maintenance of urban life, but someone that has always lived in such an environment usually lacks insight into the fundamentals of their continued existence and awareness of fragilities which surround them. It’s worse for successive generations brought up without even stories from former generations to educate and prepare them.
Delivery of these life-things only continues for as long as it’s profitable for someone to ensure that it arrives there. Look at Flint’s water situation as a pointer for how you’ll be treated if you ever drop below the level of suitable profitability.
Rural folks are just as abused in different ways, but are generally able to sustain themselves for the basics of life more robustly. However, while spending more of their limited time on those fundamentals makes them more resilient, limited economic opportunity means they can’t attain luxuries urban dwellers take for granted.
