[cadamsdotcom]

This article reads like rage bait and it's about rage bait. Reading this then taking to the comments to kvetch about your personal suffering is learned helplessness writ large.

There are so many beautiful parks. There are so many experiences to be had away from sources of rage & frustration.

But you won't find it from a publication that depends on your rage addiction.

[m4x]

There are many beautiful parks and it's wonderful to spend time in them. But at some point you have to return to domesticity, and if you can't live that part of your life without being repeatedly screwed over by greedy corporations that don't even bother to provide a good service for the money you pay them, I think it's understandable people are starting to rage.

[cadamsdotcom]

Maybe - but not all the time. You might not notice when you get honest service for an honest price - or when a community service is awesome and free! Because the next time you're triggered it flushes all your happy memories away.

And that is because you let it.

There's probably a name for the bias.

[mancerayder]

The parks are a lot more beautiful in Paris and London than in the U.S. cities like New York or Philadelphia or whatever.

On the East Coast at least, parks are for loud people to play music, they're full of litter, dogs running around, and a general American distaste for peace and beauty and quiet contemplation. We Americans love function, profit and socializing more than we value beauty.

We Americans loathe quiet, contemplating, reading, and taking things in. It's a waste of time that could be spent doing something productive.

[eudamoniac]

"'American' distaste" is not the demographic I would have inserted there when describing the problems in parks...

[pessimizer]

What exactly do you think your comment is? Metagriping is not somehow superior. Stop complaining about other people complaining.

At least they're complaining about systems and trying to think about how to regulate or change them. You're just complaining about your neighbors.

[cadamsdotcom]

Please point to the part where I complained?

[Hackbraten]

> There are so many beautiful parks.

No. I don't want to go anywhere anymore. All the sidewalks are full of SUVs, blatantly blocking my way even though it's prohibited.

Police is looking the other way.

City council doesn't react to inquiries because (as stated in the protocol of one of the meetings) "complaints sent by citizens are anecdotal anyway, and they tend to be concerned with just the one street where they live."

I try to avoid leaving the house as best as I can. Going outside has become pure rage fuel for me.