So, I live in a giant city, but I grew up rural. And I mean properly rural: No services, no mobile coverage, mountains, wild nature, tightly knit communities in tiny villages, shitters in the back yard instead of in the house, incest, mafia, human trafficking. All the traditions and values! There's a reason why village people are the corporate or academic fodder when they move to big cities, and why they so routinely get taken advantage of and abused. It's the mismatch between the community culture and the city culture. In a community, you've got a social penalty for mistreating someone in public. It's a community, the point is to maintain it as such, hence the penalty for being a dick in public. Here's where neolib hipsters make a mistake: Traditional communities are not based on mutual care, they are based on fear of penalty. What this leads to is that while you're safe on the street, at work or in school, family members usually abuse each other. Family abuse...