I really don’t think that overcrowding is doing it. Look at the United States, we’re absolutely sprawled out as a motherfucker. Modesto looks like a bomb went off that blew away everything taller than one floor. We’re suffering from a huge loneliness epidemic.
Maybe instead it’s the perception of crowdedness? It could be that we’re only wired to receive a certain amount of social stimulation, and at that, from a fairly small group. The Internet has stuck a stick of dynamite in that and blown it all over the beach. Maybe it’s just more than we’re wired to cope with?
Our natural habitat consists of living in tribes of roughly 100-120 people as hunter-gatherers. How could people not have difficulty functioning in this modern world?
I really don’t think that overcrowding is doing it. Look at the United States, we’re absolutely sprawled out as a motherfucker. Modesto looks like a bomb went off that blew away everything taller than one floor. We’re suffering from a huge loneliness epidemic.
Maybe instead it’s the perception of crowdedness? It could be that we’re only wired to receive a certain amount of social stimulation, and at that, from a fairly small group. The Internet has stuck a stick of dynamite in that and blown it all over the beach. Maybe it’s just more than we’re wired to cope with?
Our natural habitat consists of living in tribes of roughly 100-120 people as hunter-gatherers. How could people not have difficulty functioning in this modern world?
What problems would be solved by making it so that you are unlikely to ever know more than a couple hundred people?