shakahislop
Well-known member
napoli's a vision of what a future poor europe might look like, if that happens. european cities with a middle-income level of development. a colombian or peruvian amount of money and the loosening and roughness that brings. a level of dysfunction. a distinguishing feature of western europe is how well things function. it's one of the axes that you're always seeing when you go to different places. whether the systems work. nyc is all dysfunction. japan and germany are pure obsessive function. delhi is dysfunction. and so on. human systems working or not. cooperation and enforcement. dysfunction is more exciting, and more of a human way to live, when you've got to work things out on your own
the train to the airport in milan was a calm, easy movement. like an engineer had designed it. here is the train station in the middle of the city, go and sit on the clean quiet train and go to the airport, coz we know you need to go to the airport. the train to manhattan from jfk is the confusing airtrain to the long island railroad, coz the E is down, the LIRR crawls along, you can't actually get out the train from the carriage i was in, you've got to lug your shit down to the other carriages, into the dank subway, the D is broken, needles and rubbish on the tracks. function vs dysfunction
the train to the airport in milan was a calm, easy movement. like an engineer had designed it. here is the train station in the middle of the city, go and sit on the clean quiet train and go to the airport, coz we know you need to go to the airport. the train to manhattan from jfk is the confusing airtrain to the long island railroad, coz the E is down, the LIRR crawls along, you can't actually get out the train from the carriage i was in, you've got to lug your shit down to the other carriages, into the dank subway, the D is broken, needles and rubbish on the tracks. function vs dysfunction
