Anyway, Nietzsche used to walk before writing like Darwin
Long time ago I read that walking or taking a shower make your thinking more effective because it somehow enables automation mode and allow to be more focused
Women have been, for valid reasons and patriarchal overprotectiveness, been trained to feel vulnerable and exposed when walking outside. Always half-focused on who may be looking at them or tailing them, it takes away the mental freedom needed for perambulatory reflection.
Black men, brown men, immigrants, similarly, have over time faced a variety of hate crimes and false incarceration, that they must again often pay attention to their perceived "suspiciousness" factor, such as wandering around late at night with a hoodie on, or idly staring into a park where kids may be playing, lest they be mistaken for a latent criminal and get apprehended or worse.
So "walking has been the privilege of white men" is a bit of an extreme, but "justifiably walking thoughts free with impunity" is indeed the privilege of white men in the lands of white men.
Been trained?
“10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman”:
the statement is very broad and as such laughable. Basically it implies history is something that has existed in the last few hundred years in the Americas.
It's ridiculous enough it could easily fit in a satirical skit.
>"justifiably walking thoughts free with impunity" is indeed the privilege of white men in the lands of white men
- maybe lose the 'thoughts' there
yes, I can agree that was what was meant and it is correct, it was just phrased so badly that it should prompt guffaws of laughter instead of nods of agreement.
> Jeremy DeSilva is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. He is part of the research team that discovered and described two ancient members of the human family tree—Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi.
They mention it quite a lot in the "Learning how to learn" coursera course. They call it the "diffuse mode", by opposition with the "focused mode".
The course was quite interesting and easy to digest.
Also, as others have aptly pointed out, people who are not wealthy are in fact the ones who will end up doing the most walking.
People who gravitate towards using the word privilege ... just yikes.
The author of this should've taken a walk before writing this, you've got to trudge half way through to finally get to the point, which is apparently "someone who walks to think walked to think on why we walk to think"
It's easy to roll our eyes at statements like these but that just feels like adding on to the issue.
What are you including in said “insidious beast?” Any mention of a racial past is representative on an evil monster seeking to pervade all culture?
I think you’ve been watching too much hentai.
I don't mind mention of a racial past, as long as it is actually applicable. Want to talk about slavery in the Americas? Jim Crow and segregation? European colonialism? The Maori genocide on the Moriori people? Sure, we can talk about it. But Walking? Yes, walking apparently. An attempt to cram racism into every facet of life, even where it didn't exist and doesn't belong, is absolutely 100% and evil monster seeking to pervade all culture.
I don't watch hentai.
Dude... go walk around in Compton or Fuller Park and tell me you're able to ruminate like Darwin LOL.
You're trying to ELIMINATE race from every conversation because of your sensitivity. No one is "cramming" race anywhere.
I don't see it today. In fact, in my home city, I'd argue there's more areas where a black could walk freely than a white.
But that's just city life and demographics in a shitty US city. In the world, walking is not a racebound privilege.
I'm not calling your link untrue, just incomplete.
If you want to visit my hometown and give it a test, I'm more than happy to guide you.
But I also realize my experiences may have been rather different than those in other cities. It doesn't make either of us wrong.
"In particular, this study aimed to explore how the participants’ pre-existing levels of non-clinical depression, anxiety, persecutory feelings and personal resilience influence the in situ judgments they make about the contrasting urban environments."
Very poor reading comprehension from the posters in this thread.
"Forty-six student participants walked in groups through 2 urban neighbourhoods, separated by a park, in the North West of England, noting responses at pre-determined stops. Significant differences existed in participants’ sense of trust and threat between the 2 neighbourhoods along with differences in perceived resident wealth and sentiments expressed"
There's plenty of research on this: https://www.brookings.edu/research/walk-this-waythe-economic...
Seems like the posters in this thread are more concerned with being hypersensitive about "wokeness" than reality.
"Poor people walk more, ergo this article gets it wrong" is the ultimate confluence of idiocy and privilege.