It's a beautiful experience, and thank you for sharing it.
>We want “problems” to just go away. And stay away.
We do. But the thing is, sharing public spaces with a fuller range of human misery and depravity each time you leave your home, is an option. I just don't see it accomplishing the sort of positive transformation that people credit it with. Instead it makes everybody miserable, afraid, and insular - avoiding public spaces, locking themselves in cars, moving to the exurbs.
There are clearly people who don't morally deserve some kind of brutal punishment, and yet are the reason we can't have nice things. God damnit, I want nice things. But it's probably true that justice demands we accept a certain amount of spoilage.
>We want “problems” to just go away. And stay away.
We do. But the thing is, sharing public spaces with a fuller range of human misery and depravity each time you leave your home, is an option. I just don't see it accomplishing the sort of positive transformation that people credit it with. Instead it makes everybody miserable, afraid, and insular - avoiding public spaces, locking themselves in cars, moving to the exurbs.
There are clearly people who don't morally deserve some kind of brutal punishment, and yet are the reason we can't have nice things. God damnit, I want nice things. But it's probably true that justice demands we accept a certain amount of spoilage.