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Approaching contemporary life-style trends through the lens of philosophical suicide, it becomes clear that, despite whatever lip service we might pay to the diktats of science, a goodly percentage of us still fall on our knees and perform the calisthenics of faith. Whether we bow before the altar of transhumanism, with its robotic promise of eternal life, or congregate in the house of wellness, with its grunting sect of CrossFitters, we are nevertheless embracing an ideology that supplies a certain framework of meaning.
The Two Faces of Suicide
Barrett Swanson
The country builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
As the economists Ed Glaeser and Matt Kahn have written, while in 1940 most jobs were located close to the urban core, by 1996, only 16 percent of jobs were within three miles of a city’s central business district: “The dense, walking city of the 19th century has been replaced by the medium density, driving city of today.”
What’s Causing Black Flight?
theatlantic.com
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