I've also been thinking about this. One of the absolute biggest things that has caused us to get into this situation is everyone having some degree of bad risk assessment, with most having it really bad. Like most people have some real main character syndrome. I wonder if this is a consequence of so much privilege compared to the vast, vast majority of humanity that have lived so far. I have wondered if it's something that's always been inherent to our psyche and it's just been exacerbated by things in modern society? I dunno I'm no psychologist, I'm just rambling on the internet
Edit: Also I'm not saying this is across the whole world, when I say "most" I mean "most in affluent countries." Obviously there's many in the world who have good risk assessment from just having to for survival
How will you be able to look out over your property and see how much land you have and feel better than others for it, if you don't destroy the biodiversity on it?
Used to love this song and listen to this band so much in my late teens/early 20s. I do remember with these lyrics wondering at that time if that's how it would go. Funny to get to my 30s now and be like, "yep, hard relate"
Ah yeah I'm very with you on that, I'm aware these exist and I'm a massive advocate. One of the things we should be doing to counter the climate crisis housing-wise is us living in high density ways. To make that much less of a hell for people with sensory issues then these proper noise insulated places are a must.
Edit: It's also important on a disability rights level. For instance people with severe MCAS (an actually very common but very underdiagnosed condition) can have essentially an allergy to vibrations. So things like power tools being used just in the area around them can literally give them reactions like seizures
Even without cars, for someone like myself they are still loud. It's a subjective thing. There could be no cars used around my home at all but there could still be a family with loud kids, or someone who regularly blasts music or people using power tools often and so on. That isn't to say these things are inherently bad or anything, just that for me I've dealt with too much aggravating noise in various places. Now I live in a van and just come into cities when I please.
This is a big reason why I decided I couldn't live in cities anymore. For someone who grew up in a village where it was quiet almost the entire time I feel it's especially a lot. Never mind the neurodivergence not enjoying it.
Absolutely happening here in the UK, which I obviously thought would happen but goddamn Starmer and co actually did a speedrun on it that I didn't expect. I suppose they've never been socdems though, centrist "liberals" at very best.
They're "neutral" in the sense that they'll give right wing politicians some light criticism when their corruption is no longer easily hidden at all. You only need look at this image they edited of Corbyn and used while he was Labour leader to see how "impartial" they are to left wing politicians.
Just wanna say sorry that wasn't in there properly. I didn't crop it myself, didn't even notice the artists name half cropped there until you pointed it out
I've also been thinking about this. One of the absolute biggest things that has caused us to get into this situation is everyone having some degree of bad risk assessment, with most having it really bad. Like most people have some real main character syndrome. I wonder if this is a consequence of so much privilege compared to the vast, vast majority of humanity that have lived so far. I have wondered if it's something that's always been inherent to our psyche and it's just been exacerbated by things in modern society? I dunno I'm no psychologist, I'm just rambling on the internet
Edit: Also I'm not saying this is across the whole world, when I say "most" I mean "most in affluent countries." Obviously there's many in the world who have good risk assessment from just having to for survival