[throwaway_au_1]

Different strokes for different folks. At least the author of the OP had the humility not to call anyone else's perspective 'crap'.

[greggman3]

He did call it crap or did you miss it?

In so many words he said cities suck, nature rocks.

Vs me, who said both nature and cities rock, and that the attitude that one sucks is a poor attitude

[borski]

I mean, he did call them rats, which isn’t that far off.

[throwaway_au_1]

I'm not so sure that the meaning behind The Rat Race is that a human being participating in a rat race is a rat.

[borski]

> Around the 30 second mark is a scene where the protaganist rat is waiting for a train to arrive at a packed platform. I recently had a sobering realisation while standing waiting at the platform for the Waterloo & City Line: this had become my life.

He calls himself, and by implication those around him, rats in the rat race. Whether you agree with him or not, the clear implication is a negative one.