@louis It’s the internet I wanted. I think my experience of cities and my experience of the internet have been pretty parallel. Utopian early experiences and ideals, collapse into isolation and oppression and rentierism, disillusionment. 1/

@louis I still spend most of my life on the internet. I still prefer cities to suburbs and exurbs, when I can afford them. But my experience of both is suffused with an overwhelming sense of disappointment. 2/

@louis Perhaps one should write that off as the normal course of time, naive hopes and youth eventually make contact with constraints and the indignities of aging. Perhaps I am deluded, but I don’t think that’s the whole story. I think I really did experience a much richer (in a non cashflow sense) internet, and cities much more open and lively and free. I take these experiences as an existence proof, these things are possible. We are just failing to achieve them. /fin