[lbo-talk] People like what they're used to, was Let's Build

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Oct 16 21:09:42 PDT 2006


Miles Jackson wrote:
> Why not just say--people like the kind of environment they're used to?
> What does it add to the argument to smuggle in fanciful claims about how
> people in certain places are neurologically "hardwired" to like open or
> closed spaces?

That proposition itself might repay exploration. I would agree, people like what they are used to. Is it just a hidden tautology, or can we make it into a substantive proposition, explore _its_ causes, its political importance? Sometimes, of course, people don't like what they are used to, or think they don't. And sometimes they are ambivalent.

Doodling at 11pm while suffering from an aching neck.

Carrol



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