Is it a phenomenon only of the social media age?
Myths (or anecdotes) paraded as meaningful; dissenting opinion offered in opposition. And round and round we go at the speed of megabit networking, in a conversation that never seems to resolve.
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Everyone should get to live without cars on their street!
Neighbourhoods that allow for densification should be rewarded with car-free streets.
However, since single family neighbourhoods are the greatest generators of traffic, singe family neighbourhoods that resist densification should not be rewarded, but instead should continue to have streets open to traffic.
Why should bad behaviour be rewarded?
Let’s not let our frustration with the internet lead us into melodrama. This is now new. Forming opinions from selective snippets of cherry-picked anecdotes has been around as long as human language. The only thing social media does is allow us to pick up a lot more nonsense than old-fashioned eavesdropping.
Digital gossip mongering aside, it’s reassuring that even the uber rich don’t exclusively own the road or beaches.