rant · moment 9 of 18
New Yorkers Hate Other People By Design
from K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362 · #362
3 min
He riffs on how New Yorkers cope with density by ignoring strangers entirely, and argues that dumping migrant families into condos and hotels was never going to work socially.
- New Yorkers don't like strangers—no one makes eye contact or acknowledges each other in buildings because there's no point to it.
- New York is tough by design; residents put up walls because they can't emotionally invest in every person they pass constantly.
- Throwing migrant families into condominiums or hotels in New York won't work; the city can't handle it.
- Tim predicts the situation will get worse as migrants end up on the street because nobody has any idea what to do.
- New York is liberal, but if the city takes migrants in, they have to put them somewhere else.
- There's plenty of space in the country—he was recently in Iowa and saw nothing but cornfields and empty areas.
- Put migrants in the Great Plains, in areas where there's nothing, and let them do what they do there instead.