Why are many people in U.S. city areas (NY, LA) So obnoxious, rude and arrogant?

Question

These people think they own the world, they live on edge very much so, you'd think they're all crystal meth addicts, they don't care about you or often it seems themselves, they're only after money and trying to con you out of it, they're liars, fornicators (lol), I'm laughing because I'm about to describe everything the bible says is bad but I won't do it. Even if you don't believe in God, you have to admit that people from these areas, major cities, something's wrong with them. I personally don't think their behavior can be passed off as normal.

I live out in the country and when i come out to the cities I think wow, these people LIVE and THRIVE on fast forward, and could care less about the next guy.

People who live there get off on that energy, but in all reality its a purerly superficial, fake and godless energy that only serves the ego. It's an illusion.

That said, are those people really as screwed up as they appear to me, or is that just the way of life there?

From a religious perspective, these people, many of them are completely godless, and even on Christmas Day, they couldn't care less and will treat each other like sht. It's ALL about themselves and money.

From a scientific perspective, too many rats stuck in a close space, start to feed off of one another. Totally unhealthy.

In either way, something's wrong with our cities, and the minorities that live there (including the Asians and other seemingly more prosperous races) act like it's their territory and MOOOOVE.

They have like no class to them. They're just rushy rush, on the go, multitasking, at the expense of everyone else.

It's almost like slight anarchy.

AND they live like it's the end times.


The world MIGHT or might NOT be ending, but guess what?

You don't feel it, out in the country.


How could anyone ENJOY living in these places when they SO closely resemble a slice of hell?

Answer 1

You are talking about a density problem and the breaking of the social contract. There are to many people to figure out who is cheating others. Since you are never likely to deal with the person who cheated you last, and their business does not depend on you they find it better to cheat. So cheating the cintract between humans becomes the normal thing to do.
As a result you see the rise in sociopathic behaviour.

There are advantages to cities. Cities are still generators of wealth, but every advantage has a price. At one time the price of city life was plagues and diseases. We reduced that cost immensely by learning to build sewers and dealing with garbage. At one point the biggest cost was murders and muggings, reduced by police, street lights and a better justice system. The biggest cost now seems to be the sociopathology of capitalist philosophy.

Now the price is social isolation and the loss of community. We no longer work together, depend on people we know for our safety or even have a clue about who our neighbours are.
These are serious costs. They are a result of density problems.They are not fixed by better sanitation, more police or government programs.

Idealizing the country life is not the answer either. There are serious reasons why people left the farms. Remember the good old days? The good old days never existed!
I am not sure which country you live in but in most places if you look around you will see where people used to live. Old lanes leading to empty farm sites. People fled the country years ago and for the most part never returned.

Answer 2

Okay - first off, how do you know what hell really is? Your idea of it and mine might be very different. I think it's great in the city. Second, people who live in cities may have lived there all their lives - it is a way of life, of course, and very different to someone from the country. But the thing is, your way works for you, and their way works for them. Who are you to judge how anyone else lives? You mentioned the bible, so I know you know it's not up to you to judge anyone, yet you made several very judgmental statements - "you'd think they're all crystal meth addicts, they don't care about you or often it seems themselves, they're only after money and trying to con you out of it, they're liars, fornicators" - how do you know that? How can you judge an entire population of any given city based on however little you've seen of it?

Answer 3

That's not entirely true. There are country dwellers who could care less, too. I should know, I'm one of them. By the same token, not all city dwellers are as you have described. Some people are made for the city, some are made for the country.

As I said, I live in the country, too, and I hate it here. It's inconvenience, boredom, and low population depresses me. I'm stuck here because my husband won't move. I'd be better off in the high energy, convenience, and high population of the city. But to each his own.

Answer 4

You like the country. Many people like the city. No one's forcing you to live in the city, sos top complaining about people who do. There are things you have to do to live in crowded areas, but there are so many benefits to cities it's well worth it. If cities are like hell, I'll enjoy hell much more than I would heaven.

The rat experiments you refer to occurred because rats are not social creatures. Humans are, they don't go berserk when cooped up. Studies in chimps have shown that.

Stop trying to impose your rural bronze-age values on others. You don't like a place, don't move there or visit it. Don't like having self esteem, fine by me. Believe in a deity if you wish. Just don't bother telling me that my life isn't normal from your (probably less than) layman's understanding of sociology and psychology.

Answer 5

although I totally disagree with your initial question, having lived in LA, Miami and NYC; you are not totally off the mark on the consumed lives thing.
Stuff can never make you happy. If you can't be happy right now you can't be happy. however, for myself, I thrive on chaos. But bobbing on the surface not getting consumed in the currents.

Answer 6

kinda like everyone in canada hates the toronto-ians,
which was brought forth by cbc news, for awareness.

what is it about toronto?

Answer 7

Perhaps because God wants them to be like that dear...

Answer 8

i guess i'm considered a minority, because i've moved several times from black neighborhoods and thugged- out nieghborhoods because my **** kept getting stolen and broken into. grr...

Answer 9

I THINK they've improved on what they used to be like.