I have lived most of my life so far in a city. And I have lived most of my life so far among city people. And both – the city and the city-dweller – are dangerous. They are both full of themselves and do not have a vision of the world beyond the city and its life.
City life breeds homogeneity. It also cultivates social blindness. Cities give birth to intellectual illiterates, a kind of people who are educated to perform tasks that are necessary to survive in a city and to follow the template of behavior in all spheres of life as a city dweller.
If you are not a part of this phenomenon: mourn. Mourn because you will spend your life feeling frustrated with the lack of sensibility in those around you and angry because you have to conform to such behavior to get anywhere or get anything done.
If you are part of the city-life phenomenon: rejoice. Rejoice because you will hopefully die before you realize that your destiny was to be one of the marching ants that made up the vastness of the urban human mass and nothing else. If you do realize it before you die, fret not. Fret not because that is a noble cause with a difficult path. It is often difficult to tread a trodden path because the animal within us wants to break free.
