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It might be too late to pitch in, but let me bring out a few counter examples (to city love, not to corporation distrust)

In indian movies and literature it is very common for a villager to yearn for his village, but having to live in a city. Songs dedicated to the village are more common, but to cities, relatively less. Songs about cities are always laced with a lot of "Beware". They rarely have straight compliments, always back-handed compliments.

I'm not sure if this is because India is relatively new in the process of urbanization.

Another example of city caution, I found was in 'Lila' by Robert Pirsig, in which he calls the big city a beast that slowly devours those within it.

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>Rudd-O, why are we indoctrinated more to love city than firm symbols?

Families and cities (governments, in reality) are fundamentally coercive - the indoctrination is to prevent, or at least reduce, rebellion. And most people are stupid enough that it works, most of the time.

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