When I moved to Hawaii, that was my first time in small-town America and my first time living on an island.
It was impossible to be alone and everyone knows everything if you have any friend group. That bothered me, at first.
For the first… month… I felt like I had to be on my best, most generic, behavior. It made my think twice about hookups and which women to pursue. I distinctly remember being in the backseat of a car playing with glowsticks with a lady, and I was just like “nah.” and left. For superficial reasons along with not being that interested, but thinking about the social consequences more than I would in a big city. I would have made out at least otherwise.
But after that I went super polarizing and things got way more fun. More partying, more raunchiness, more visibly. Some of my other tech transplant friends had an issue, but the far more attractive people I wanted loved it.
and that's why I don’t think constant surveillance will have that specific outcome. Maybe less murder and assault? But people might define themselves and self segregate more greatly than before
It was impossible to be alone and everyone knows everything if you have any friend group. That bothered me, at first.
For the first… month… I felt like I had to be on my best, most generic, behavior. It made my think twice about hookups and which women to pursue. I distinctly remember being in the backseat of a car playing with glowsticks with a lady, and I was just like “nah.” and left. For superficial reasons along with not being that interested, but thinking about the social consequences more than I would in a big city. I would have made out at least otherwise.
But after that I went super polarizing and things got way more fun. More partying, more raunchiness, more visibly. Some of my other tech transplant friends had an issue, but the far more attractive people I wanted loved it.
and that's why I don’t think constant surveillance will have that specific outcome. Maybe less murder and assault? But people might define themselves and self segregate more greatly than before