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# Rationalized Ideals of Silence Crashing Against the Rock of Reality
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/rationalized-ideals-of-silence-crashing-against-the-rock-of-reality/
- Published: 2024-06-18T12:12:08.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-18T13:40:35.000Z
- Description: Or rather, "Rationalized Ideals AGAINST Silence Crashing . . . ".
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Current Affairs, Briefly, Cities, The Hemisphere Hypothesis

[A recent essay at *The Atlantic* deplores how wealthy people gentrify urban neighborhoods, making them sanctuaries of silence](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-brooklyn-be-loud/670600/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Silence is a manifestation of class and racial privilege. How much better if those wealthy whites would just let the other side of the binary express itself in all its noise and craziness. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/2024/06/Why-Do-Rich-People-Love-Quiet.jpg)

## One reader responds:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/2024/06/Why-Do-Rich-People-Love-Quiet-Response.jpg)

I live in a semi-rural area, so I don't know who's right, but based on my (many) excursions into urbania, I suspect the reader is. 

The essayist's, incidentally, is an exercise in the left hemisphere: a narrative written to fit a logocentric idea. The story is written from a rationalized ideal. It's an exercise in Russell Kirk's "defecated rationality." (And no, I'm not being a moron for putting Kirk and Derrida on the same side of an argument . . . I've explored this and will continue to do so), 

The reader's response is more right-hemispheric: reality ("real reality," embodied, earthy, etc.) giving rise to a reflection on what is. 

"Narrative": a bogus story written from an ideal. 

"Reflection": an honest attempt to come to grips with what actually is. 

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