Psychogeography is the study of how environments affect your perception, your mood and your behaviour. It's often seen as a nothing concept, this is not a thing anybody ever notices. No it is not, no it is not. You have not taken enough psychedelics, you don't understand set and setting. These psychedelic feelings are underlying within sober reality, even if you are not an aware person, even if you're the type to float from place to place person to person entirely oblivious to anything that's happening, what the environment feels like enters into you. You know there are many settings you feel more comfortable in, you've all felt it.
Society, particularly North America, just loves its ugly utilitarian modern environments. Most of you don't notice when you are within one of these buildings, however living a life of moving from this horrid environment to this horrid environment enters into you in a very deep level. You don't know it, you feel normal. Well, you could be feeling a lot more comfortable than normal. The least comfortable environment to be in is likely the environment of the psychological establishment. It seems to be metaphysically locked into the 1980s for some reason.
Everybody has a specific type of environment they are most comfortable in, several other types they're also quite fond of. You design your home environments in this manner, however you likely don't understand the peak of subtle beauty within this type of environment. Attaining the peak of subtle beauty within this type of environment will leave you all the more comfortable. If you manage to hit the peak, even the people who would not select this type of environment will agree this is an ideally comfortable environment. In isolating every type of environment and finding all of the options within the peak, we will attain a much higher level of global comfort.
A lot of people think the environments they are most comfortable within are the environments that remind them of their childhood, the environments of familiar comfort. This is the main factor holding back interior aesthetical improvement, the second most important factor being that the people who design most aspects of our interior environments are in no way artistically minded, they're all utilitarian minded. People think they're receiving conscious comfort however they have absolutely no idea what they have improperly compartmentalized from childhood being associated with these environments semi-consciously. A lot of the time it's a whole lot of fucked up feelings pretty much all revolving around repression.
People who now find themselves uncomfortable in an environment within the peak of subtle beauty just because it is not their type of environment have improperly compartmentalized education and experience.
One little object within your environment feels out of place, feels improper, in a lot of ways there goes your entire semi-conscious hold on your environmental comfort.
Philosophical Vibes: Foreword by Kit Carruthers
The way in which you semi-consciously apply your understanding to your compartmentalization of the philosophies of the community you are within form the vibes you feel when you are within this community. The more intelligent you are, the more accurate and dramatic the vibes. At the very bottom of intelligence you will never notice a community's vibes. Take enough psychedelics and your vibe awareness will become out of this world. Put the dissociative abuse in the brain as well and everywhere you go everything will melt into atmosphere.
Steinbach's vibes were psychedelic out of this world to the maximum. Stark emptiness. The entire community is the rich Mennonite money suckers who drain EVERYTHING out of the community so they get to call themselves a wealthy community, the 30% at the top get to hoard and occasionally donate to charity so they can say "Take that society look at me float on myself." The electricity will go out at the drop of a hat, sometimes for seemingly no reason, cell service is horrid, no bus service whatsoever. You want your furnace fixed in the winter? Well you may have to die because we'll get to you in two and a half weeks. Walking around town the vibes are the most stark of empty, "You're on your fucking own." It feels more empty and alone fighting for your own survival than the vibes of a lonely isolated rural dwelling, at least there you know things are handled people are on top of stuff to some degree you know where to go when you need help. The vibes are a hardened things are comfortable, things can be hard but they're a natural hard things are comfortable. Not here, here the imposition of no service for you hammers hard. You don't get to go out and find service, we're fucking STRIPPING the potentiality of any service from you, there's no way for you to find it you're gonna die.
Psychogeographical Analysis
Rural Environments