Re:Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?
by uoaei on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:45PM
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> If my only role is "being there" then my only element of control is "not being there", which is sort of the poster's entire point.
But of course it's never that simple, which is sort of my entire point.
Re:Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?
by NovemberWhiskey on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:03PM
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Not to be obtuse, but what is your point?
Obviously there exists some complex set of life circumstances, personal histories, elements of chance and so on that lead to there being some people who will interact in an insistent, even hostile, way with strangers on the streets.
In that both I and those people form part of the same economy, inhabit the same political reality, my actions are probably implicated in some unfathomably complex way. I have "a role".
To that extent: yes, it is not "that simple", in fact it's unknowably complex. But, in practical terms, what are you proposing?
For me, "the locals" means nothing more than "the people who are habitually in that area". In my neighborhood, I am one of "the locals", other places I go, I'm perhaps not.
I took "aggression" to mean something like "proclivity to force a social engagement regardless of my desire to be part of it".
In New York City, that's sometimes panhandling, sometimes people with mental health issues, sometimes the guys with the CDs or the people who want to tell the whole car about their personal religious conversion while you're riding on the subway.
If my only role is "being there" then my only element of control is "not being there", which is sort of the poster's entire point.