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		<title>Opinion: Gritty Glamour is Bunk</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/15/opinion-gritty-glamour-is-bunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, The City Desk will present to you a real opinion piece concerning the cities in which we live. Maybe it&#8217;s because I was a failure as a bohemian (one has to be a true bourgeois to become a true bohemian), but all this hipster wank about how &#8220;authentic&#8221; New York was in the 70&#8242;s really gets up my nose. I understand the love of vibrant density, variety, energy and chaos, but I&#8217;m not willing to romanticize the downside of such environments, or the fact that the backdrop of such fantasies are populated by people who are experiencing real suffering. It&#8217;s only glamorous if you can escape it; playing at being &#8220;decadent&#8221; is just a childish, predictable trope. Drop the silly act and have a picnic, for heaven&#8217;s sake. Northeastern cities are still a filthy, dangerous, feudal mess (our friends who live in cities are robbed with some regularity), but I&#8217;d never want to see New York, Philly or Atlantic City return to the singularly dark depths they had plumbed in the 70&#8242;s. In my own way I&#8217;m just as guilty of this misguided nostalgia: I&#8217;m fascinated by old New York, the world of the Bowery and Five Points&#8211;but I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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