Totally disagree. Cities are wildly diverse, social media is grouped into echo chambers of extremely vocal minorities.
Hmm. Ok. My experience with cities is only soso.
I was thinking of the closeness. Memes travel fast in that environment. So there are strong emergent effects and strong subcultures. When I meet city people I see these strong group opinions and whatever the political bandwagon of the hour, they’re on it.
Whereas here in the sticks we’re all a bunch of slackers, relatively speaking.
Having lived in both, I think there’s one important parallel between social media and rural culture: in both, you hear about the rest of humanity second-hand, through the filters of algorithms, news, and limited acquaintances; while in a major city you meet people from all over the world face to face.
Is this one of those things where people who have never seen a living vow before romanticize rural life?
I live amongst cows. And goats. There are also sticks. Actually.
Well I’m not going to keep making guesses in the hopes that same day you’ll elaborate on what you meant.
Have fun with your sticks I guess
Are you familiar with the term, “living in the sticks”?
(Jesus Christ you people are sooo defensive.)
Wut.
I mean, they were pretty intertwined early on. Rural areas didn’t always have internet access like cities did. Which never made sense to me. In a city, you’re already right there near each other. The people out in the country are the ones who need to reach out to meet more people!
Ya, it’s the nearness of everybody. And the emergent phenomena of that.
Also, in a city, are you surrounded by and in contact with friends? Strangers? 50-50? I think that matters.
