Cities

Stockholm is a bourgeois city. Berlin is a working class city. New York is an aristocratic city, as is Paris. The difference lies not in how much money the inhabitants have, but in what relationship they have to bohemians. The people of the working class let bohemians do whatever they like. The bourgeoisie stifles bohemianism. And the aristocrats breathe down the bohemians’ necks, beckoning to them with promises of fame, glory, and transformation. The bohemians in such an aristocratic world behave as if they were swallowing amphetamines.