Comments on: He Forgot It in People http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/27/he-forgot-it-in-people/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dara Lind http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/27/he-forgot-it-in-people/#comment-665 Dara Lind Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:45:03 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=124#comment-665 Urbanism can be cosmopolitan, or it can be localist. This depends on whether you see yourself as living in a state of urbanity or in a particular urbanity. It seems to me that most of the young D.C. intellectuals I know/read do the latter, which is much more localist than it is cosmopolitan. Urbanism can be cosmopolitan, or it can be localist. This depends on whether you see yourself as living in a state of urbanity or in a particular urbanity. It seems to me that most of the young D.C. intellectuals I know/read do the latter, which is much more localist than it is cosmopolitan.

]]> By: Nicola Karras http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/27/he-forgot-it-in-people/#comment-664 Nicola Karras Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:34:37 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=124#comment-664 It's important to distinguish between saying that "the idea-pushers don’t have to be everything they propose" and hypocrisy, though. If I make my living arguing that women shouldn't work, that's not vanguardy, it's just dumb. I'm afraid that highly-educated, cosmopolitan 20-somethings arguing for localism and traditional community edges dangerously close to that. It’s important to distinguish between saying that “the idea-pushers don’t have to be everything they propose” and hypocrisy, though. If I make my living arguing that women shouldn’t work, that’s not vanguardy, it’s just dumb.

I’m afraid that highly-educated, cosmopolitan 20-somethings arguing for localism and traditional community edges dangerously close to that.

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