[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...