Antipathy is a protective element essential to urban living.

Evidence

We are protected against both of these typical dangers of the city by antipathy, which is the preparatory phase of concrete antagonism and which engenders the distances and aversions without which we could not lead the urban life at all. The extent and combination of antipathy, the rhythm of its appearance and disappearance, the forms in which it is satisfied, all these, along with the more literally unifying elements, produce the metropolitan form of life in its irresolvable totality; and what at first glance appears in it as dissociation, actually is one of its elementary forms of association. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 285

Categorization

• DEFINE: Antipathy as the preparatory phase of antagonism that engenders the distances/aversions enabling urban life.
• XREF: Direct theoretical substrate for the reader’s blasé attitude argument; pairs with the cited short piece ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’. — connects to: Urban reserve conceals a latent antipathy that functions as a form of socialization — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 754; The skill urbanites develop for public navigation is deployed defensively to avoid others; Metropolitan life forces a rational over emotional response to protect the psyche — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 749

Related

• Urban reserve conceals a latent antipathy that functions as a form of socialization (similarity 0.84)
• The skill urbanites develop for public navigation is deployed defensively to avoid others (similarity 0.84)
• Metropolitan life forces a rational over emotional response to protect the psyche (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Metropolitan life forces a rational over emotional response to protect the psyche #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 749