Saturday, July 08, 2017

Class Separation

There are many processes that contribute to both the spatial and cultural separation of various classes, and this is a complex topic. Though there are a few bits of low-hanging fruit to comment on for now.

In a rural mode of production, one exists much closer to various organic processes of life and death. One deals with a higher frequency of death events, and one becomes intimately acquainted with births and decays occurring over many forms.

One does encounter these processes in the city, but the more social resources one has, the more all of this is concealed. One rests atop a perpetual bed of concrete or asphalt, and subsists within a finished and furnished habitat within which resources flow in, their origins concealed, and wastes flow out, themselves taking place in a state of concealment as well.

Further, with much practical activity on a farm "good-enough" measurements rule, so long as the necessities need to be taken care of, and the obsessive and analytical measurements that are more precise and labored over tend to be seen more in contexts that display a greater amount of technological development.

These differences shape the respective cultures that they take part in. How that looks and to what extent it happens is definitely something to look at.