I confess a little bit that some of these characterizations of the new people, especially maybe in the earlier book before and the blog and even in Feral City, felt almost like caricatures. But I realize now that I had it wrong. You're characterizing entitlement. It's definitely entitlement. And so the whole world has to be reduced to a caricature. So that this neighborhood is becoming a caricature. These buildings are caricatures. That we are meant to be alienated from each other in neoliberal capitalism. The real crazies are the ones pretending to be normal. At least that's from my experience in thinking. Like, I just don't see there's any joy in the hyper norm
Jeremiah Moss’s Feral City is much much more than a Covid memoir. In many ways it is a continuation of his desire to understand how and why New York city has changed, and if there is still a place for outsiders or if it now belongs to what he calls “the new people.” We walked around our Neighborhood together to talk about what the city was like during Covid time and what the phrase “go back to normal” really means.
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