Posted by Declan on August 5, 2006, at 20:43:12
In reply to Re: Are people in Rowanda happy and content? » Estella, posted by Dinah on August 5, 2006, at 20:32:42
That's what "Atomised" was about, in its misanthropic way. We are very social animals but sometimes the forms society takes don't work particularly well with that.
The choice comes at a cost though. Here we used to have an alternative town. Real estate prices went through the roof, like everywhere else, and this meant that the only shops that could afford the rents were chain stores. I could walk for miles through them and not see a single interesting thing or a thing to engage the mind or the spirit. So we've ended up with handbag shops and 7/11s in place of the interesting ones that everyone came here for. I imagine market forces work like this in other fields. Having said that I shouldn't be too snooty about market forces...I've never been much good at making money.
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