Bergen, Månen

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I en tilværelse preget av kontinuerlig mobilitet og skifte av inntrykk og roller blir den distanserende egenskapen ved pengene en forutsetning for å kunne hanskes med det rastløse storbylivet:

In this way, an inner barrier develops between people, a barrier however, that is indispensable for the modern form of life. For the jostling of the crowdedness and the motley disorder of metropolitan communication would simply be unbearable without such psychological distance.(…) The pecuniary character of relationships, either openly or concealed in a thousand forms, places an invisible functional distance between people that is an inner protection and neutralization against the overcrowded proximity and friction of our cultural life (:477).