tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post1783404887869668517..comments2023-03-24T21:49:49.118-04:00Comments on Dubious Prospects: Explicating the loathing of citiesGraydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-27909974437600750612009-05-25T16:01:04.949-04:002009-05-25T16:01:04.949-04:00Getting a grant to discover why people hate Toront...<I>Getting a grant to discover why people hate Toronto would be a very interesting exercise in proposal writing, too, but I lack any of the necessary background.</I>If I ever go to grad school, I shall see what I can do about this. Assuming I do not go to grad school for something like Ancient Studies, that is.jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037166221209286178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-30977029570223151202009-05-25T15:01:27.467-04:002009-05-25T15:01:27.467-04:00I am in no way wishing to say that xenophobia has ...I am in no way wishing to say that xenophobia has nothing to do with it! It certainly does. One of the major strains in the neocon movement is a sense that if the government can tell them that Those People are fully human and have to be treated with the respect which accords to that state, that makes the government illegitimate right there, which is sort of a combination of the xenophobia and Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-53266017304257395102009-05-25T13:00:06.855-04:002009-05-25T13:00:06.855-04:00My completely unscientific sense is that xenophobi...My completely unscientific sense is that xenophobia is a factor for people who may not be quite as averse to being told what to do—members of the congregations of the religious right, for example, who gladly submit to their pastors' telling them what to do. And I admit that I haven't done a proper study of the issue, either by examining right-wing anti-urban rhetoric or by polling urbanophobes. <jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037166221209286178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-72294894987452158912009-05-22T19:10:06.909-04:002009-05-22T19:10:06.909-04:00I agree that there's a very strong strain of xenop...I agree that there's a very strong strain of xenophobia involved; wanting to limit all interactions to unsurprising ones has a lot to do with the extreme social introversion exhibited by the various neocon movements, but I think this is secondary to the affronted state at the thought of being told what to do.<br /><br />Of course, the sense of class and place and propriety that drives the Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-36720649523289008502009-05-22T18:22:46.773-04:002009-05-22T18:22:46.773-04:00I think another part of that is that cities are si...I think another part of that is that cities are simply teeming with unpredictability and uncontrollability. There are a lot of people. As you note, in order for <I>anything</I> to work, all of those people have to co-operate, sometimes more than they want to. But having all of those people in one place means that it's very difficult to control what they say to each other, what they do, what they jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037166221209286178noreply@blogger.com