Major Twit shit and how it improves my worldbuilding
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So I've realized that the absolute bonkers that Charlie Kirk was posting recently about the future of cities reminds me of the actual reasons why I want cities in my world. I find that watching a certain subset of radical right-wing delusions is great for fleshing out what I think my world should look like.<br><br>I think that's what I appreciate most about the right. In engaging with their craziest conspiracy shit and delusions I always find a kernel of a larger truth.<br><br>So for instance: many right wingers really don't like cities because they are the biggest part of the failing american infrastructure. They are the site of great contradiction, innovation and abject poverty, radical diversity and racism, grand experimentation and dogmatic orthodoxy. If the right actually cared about the cities they could make a legitimate point about the dangers of unchecked capitalism. Cities are just where growth happens fastest and, as a result, they feel the most pressure when the system breaks down. This is a subject that a lot of leftists really don't want to touch because, well, we love cities for a lot of the same reasons the right hates them but in seeking to preserve all the good things about cities we don't really want to think critically about the institutions that are crumbling so fast.<br><br>In my world, cities are a huge, powerful force that are the centers of radical innovation and experimentation. I've made them all about the future because that's a large part of what cities have become, and I want to explore the contradiction of innovation and abject poverty. I've also started to experiment with the idea of radical diversity and the conflicts it brings. What larger implications do mass migrations of people from one place to another bring? How will their interactions change as time goes on, and larger more recognized identities develop? Charlie is right that not all people are equal. It is hard to become a renaissance artist. In engaging with the Delusions, I can look at what about city living makes the lives of non-white people and non-binary people more valuable.
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