WOW this is really making me think. In college I lived in a multi-ethnic (but largely Caribbean) neighborhood. I reveled in their revelry - it would never have occurred to me to call the cops to get them to turn down their (frankly amazing) music, unless it was maybe 3 am.
What are people thinking? How does it make people feel more safe to live in silence (and I ask that as a now pretty-privileged in every possible way white person).
It also bothers me, as the child of hippies and who learned at a very young age WHY people should/not smudge, when I see sage and palo santo sitting casually on the shelf at cafes and such. It always makes me think "do people understand what they are using?? Do they understand the WHY??". Ditto for fake dream catchers.
WOW this is really making me think. In college I lived in a multi-ethnic (but largely Caribbean) neighborhood. I reveled in their revelry - it would never have occurred to me to call the cops to get them to turn down their (frankly amazing) music, unless it was maybe 3 am.
What are people thinking? How does it make people feel more safe to live in silence (and I ask that as a now pretty-privileged in every possible way white person).
It also bothers me, as the child of hippies and who learned at a very young age WHY people should/not smudge, when I see sage and palo santo sitting casually on the shelf at cafes and such. It always makes me think "do people understand what they are using?? Do they understand the WHY??". Ditto for fake dream catchers.
“Generibuildings are the unfortunately ubiquitous five over ones that the activists are demanding to house the unhoused... so you’d be a nimby?