We long for living in a metropolis — a place densely packed with people. But then once we’re there, we avoid humans at all cost — we avoid eye contact on the subway, we tend not to talk to people on the street, we just want to go about our day uninterrupted. I think this contradiction is because we’re simply greedy/em>: we want the metropolis all to ourselves.

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