Finally, some good advice from The Telegraph.

Halloween right around the corner ya'll.

Under my regime, carpet will be banned.

Imagine how much better the world would be if littering were an executable offense.

What did Curtis mean by this?

Your leftist inner self is showing again, Scott. We've been through this before: if you want to fool the retarded hicks, you have to pretend like you understand them.

Finally.

Just in (about 10 years after publication): high IQ Jews might be happiest in cities, while those Jews with low IQ like myself are unable to adapt to the complexities and thus should consider a slower pace of life away from the cities.

What a funny chart.

These are fairly small shifts, but it does appear as if people living in large cities are the most likely to be unhappy, people in small communities the most likely to be very happy.

Though I'm feeling a bit of secondhand embarrassment based on the author's attempt to quantify happiness. This seems like it's probably more of an aesthetic judgment than a numerical one.

Probably best not to take this too seriously.

The sentence "Cities have few virtues, but many vices" has two citations. Lol.

One of them is a paper that argued, back in 1915, that the city allows people to segregate themselves into immoral communities, creating dens of thieves. This very much reminds me of how the Internet allows communities of furries and out such blights to grow.

The second, back in 1938, seemed to be arguing that urbanism had taken over civilization to an unreasonable degree and was in fact murdering the social order. You see as rigid social structures and caste lines are broken down by urbanism, cities create social instability; instead of living in one integrated and properly structured community, the individual belongs to a variety of "intersecting and tangential social groups."

Academic writing was much better back in the early 20th century. Sigh.

In short, we know that cities are in many ways incompatible with human flourishing and wellbeing.

Science finally catches up to philosophy after more than 2300 years.