Rural life absorbs a directionless war better than urban life does

Evidence

This war with neither soul nor songs, which had never created a popular mentality, which in each man discreetly murmured I and never we, imprisoning only the private universe, disoriented the country infinitely less than the city, for here it did not function contrary to the mind’s habits: the egoistic, short-run calculation, and the resigned, somewhat magical frequentation of a future evasive by nature. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 274

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 274
• XREF: connects to: War-weariness reduces metropolitan populations to apathetic indifference toward colonial conflicts — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1537; Urban order arising from any source makes social life predictable and bearable — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 260; Rural territory is policed more easily than dense urban ground

Broader Connections

• Urban order arising from any source makes social life predictable and bearable #complicates (0.80) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 260
• War-weariness reduces metropolitan populations to apathetic indifference toward colonial conflicts #exemplifies (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1537