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To Renn’s point, most American cities are divided on these issues. Perhaps the most useful thing the model does is obscure that debate behind a veil of scientific certainty. Behind hard, solid numbers. “From the standpoint of a citizen, these numbers essentially come out of a black box,” he said. “You don’t have any idea how they generated these numbers, so you can’t begin to critique them.”
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
More than twenty-five years ago, William Whyte's research tracked the stock performance of thirty-eight New York City companies that chose to relocate to the suburbs, and found that they appreciated at less than half the rate of thirty-five similar companies that had stayed put (Whyte, City: Rediscovering the Center, 294-95).
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
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