Cykros on Nostr: Cities neglected by big corporate interests tend to be heavier on the vibes in my ...
Cities neglected by big corporate interests tend to be heavier on the vibes in my experience, or even some smaller towns. The ones that say, fuck the bottom line, we live here, and this place is for us, not you, for every you out there. And it's of course a continuum, but nothing kills the vibes of a place like the existence of giant private equity firms and publicly traded anything.
Arguably at least to some extent this can be felt at times in smaller cities around hubs; I'd argue Brooklyn has more vibes than Manhattan, Cambridge more than Boston, Oakland more than San Francisco, or Eugene more than Portland. And that's not to say these places haven't lost character over time too; just that they're being scrubbed of it slower. Assimilated slower, as the Wall Street Borg removes individuality in its steady march forward.
I hesitate to blame money itself, because money has always been with us. It seems more like the marriage between those driving the money and their organizational systems on the one hand (AGILE...), and DEI, which together, seek to turn people from individuals with unique characteristics into standardized commodities, interchangeable. We're no longer nuggets of gold found in different streambeds and mineshafts, we're melted down, stripped of 'impurities,' and poured into identical weights and stamped with the same image.
I know many see the story of Revelation as a warning for the future, and maybe it's both, bit it bears reminding that 'the Beast 666' (or 616, as it appears in earlier manuscripts), very clearly refers to Nero. One of the things he did, along with slaughtering saints, was debase the money, so that it became less about the metal content, and more just about the mark it bore, as coins no longer had the same reliable weight. The 'mark of the Beast' everyone needed to transact with was these coins, which represented his system of human control, that sought to homogenize society at the time.
Meanwhile, weird comes from Germanic 'wyrd' or Norse 'urđr' meaning 'fate' or 'destiny.' If you ever sit down one day and realize nobody's called you weird in awhile, I'd say it's time to seriously examine your life choices.
Be a force of nature, not a product of a workflow.
Arguably at least to some extent this can be felt at times in smaller cities around hubs; I'd argue Brooklyn has more vibes than Manhattan, Cambridge more than Boston, Oakland more than San Francisco, or Eugene more than Portland. And that's not to say these places haven't lost character over time too; just that they're being scrubbed of it slower. Assimilated slower, as the Wall Street Borg removes individuality in its steady march forward.
I hesitate to blame money itself, because money has always been with us. It seems more like the marriage between those driving the money and their organizational systems on the one hand (AGILE...), and DEI, which together, seek to turn people from individuals with unique characteristics into standardized commodities, interchangeable. We're no longer nuggets of gold found in different streambeds and mineshafts, we're melted down, stripped of 'impurities,' and poured into identical weights and stamped with the same image.
I know many see the story of Revelation as a warning for the future, and maybe it's both, bit it bears reminding that 'the Beast 666' (or 616, as it appears in earlier manuscripts), very clearly refers to Nero. One of the things he did, along with slaughtering saints, was debase the money, so that it became less about the metal content, and more just about the mark it bore, as coins no longer had the same reliable weight. The 'mark of the Beast' everyone needed to transact with was these coins, which represented his system of human control, that sought to homogenize society at the time.
Meanwhile, weird comes from Germanic 'wyrd' or Norse 'urđr' meaning 'fate' or 'destiny.' If you ever sit down one day and realize nobody's called you weird in awhile, I'd say it's time to seriously examine your life choices.
Be a force of nature, not a product of a workflow.