VC angle and usual shortsightedness that comes with boundless profit motive one correct angle in there.
OTOH I don’t think the train station analogy holds as eg funnily enough NYC subway stations to me usually show everything that can be great about “big city scaled up village culture where strangers meet strangers”.
I’m not sure if still the case but I do miss NYC just for this sense of belonging, everyone being in conversation with everyone and general readiness to help out (“I <3 NY” isn’t just marketing). To me a clear testament that this can work IRL and it probably works online as well (and did, for a long time, on Reddit actually).
Although not “permaculture” per se these “free open / public spaces” remind me a lot of it (again, even / especially NYC): No over-bearing central organizing force (VC/capitalist, what have you) will be able to “let go” enough in order to “let it grow” from common experience so far.
Fediverse etc hence to me the only potential way out at this point.
OTOH I don’t think the train station analogy holds as eg funnily enough NYC subway stations to me usually show everything that can be great about “big city scaled up village culture where strangers meet strangers”.
I’m not sure if still the case but I do miss NYC just for this sense of belonging, everyone being in conversation with everyone and general readiness to help out (“I <3 NY” isn’t just marketing). To me a clear testament that this can work IRL and it probably works online as well (and did, for a long time, on Reddit actually).
Although not “permaculture” per se these “free open / public spaces” remind me a lot of it (again, even / especially NYC): No over-bearing central organizing force (VC/capitalist, what have you) will be able to “let go” enough in order to “let it grow” from common experience so far.
Fediverse etc hence to me the only potential way out at this point.