Comment by 627467

> Your picture of the friendly villagers might be true in your experience, but in reality a lot of those people are nasty when they encounter any kind of cultural diversity or difference.

Cities are all the things you describe, including the myopic perspective and the inflexibility on display in this quote.

And thats why city states - which is what effectively those you describe are - eventually collapse into "dark ages" and future generation of people can't understand why