Traditionally, the ‘edge of the map’ and wilderness are portrayed as being places of savagery and barbarism, while cities are seen as representing culture and as centres of learning and industry.
I couldn’t help but feel, then, that we must be living in a world that has flipped on its head when I returned from a thoroughly disconnected holiday spent among the thick forests of Poland’s northeast – bordering the forbidden lands of Belarus and Russia, in the form of Kaliningrad, and so at the edge of ‘civilised’ Europe – to a barrage of utter insanity emanating from the cities of the western world, not least among them our own capital.
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