(Small Town Charms) Working on legal nonsense (a motion) while sitting in a loca

(Small Town Charms)
Working on legal nonsense (a motion) while sitting in a local auto repair company (wheel bearings), and overhearing small town chatter.

It’s all moral. All of it. It’s all considerate.

Compare that to chatter in urban centrs, which is almost entirely posturing, status signaling, virtue signaling, and selfishness – all of it meaningless because in an urban environment you’re irrelevant. And what many people like is that they can treat others as irrelevant too. And that, it turns out, isn’t a good thing for anyone.

I may have lived in a bunch of cities, including boston, seattle, ottawa, london, moscow, and kiev – and yes I love the availability of ‘input’. But it’s pretty hard, after experiencing those lives, not to appreciate the appeal of small towns – at least those that are not in serious decline or overwhelmed by immigration that’s made the place antisocial.