I read your post and thought about Tallahassee. I don’t know of many places I can walk to and not feel as if I’m “out in the country” by my lonesome, even though I’m surrounded by city buildings and people’s houses. Porches are empty, gardens are enclosed, even people in the nearby park are speedily doing rounds to get their run in. Cafes are the closest thing to an ‘urban commons’, but even then, no one wants to chat.
I also think of your final words, where the city needs to have an assembly of people who could choose vice, but encouraged to choose virtue. Really good line there. I am starting to wonder about this town whether we even have a modus operandi that’s remotely linked to one another’s. Maybe that’s what makes this town seem so big and unapproachable.
I really like your point about cities having more virtue if viciousness isn’t simply quenched by oppression, of tyranny, but of the desire to be good with a risk of making bad decisions.
Where’s the virtue of the
soldier in the battle field, or a gardener in the garden? It is measured when the soldier enters the garden or the gardener enters the battle field.
I read your post and thought about Tallahassee. I don’t know of many places I can walk to and not feel as if I’m “out in the country” by my lonesome, even though I’m surrounded by city buildings and people’s houses. Porches are empty, gardens are enclosed, even people in the nearby park are speedily doing rounds to get their run in. Cafes are the closest thing to an ‘urban commons’, but even then, no one wants to chat.
I also think of your final words, where the city needs to have an assembly of people who could choose vice, but encouraged to choose virtue. Really good line there. I am starting to wonder about this town whether we even have a modus operandi that’s remotely linked to one another’s. Maybe that’s what makes this town seem so big and unapproachable.
Thank you for reading my Substack so insightfully!
I really like your point about cities having more virtue if viciousness isn’t simply quenched by oppression, of tyranny, but of the desire to be good with a risk of making bad decisions.
Where’s the virtue of the
soldier in the battle field, or a gardener in the garden? It is measured when the soldier enters the garden or the gardener enters the battle field.