Lucianne.com links to an Aspen Times column by Glenn K. Beaton. In it, Beaton describes the death spiral of the once-proud city of Seattle, as it becomes a veritable vortex of virtue signalling (and sidewalk defecation).
If you don’t live in Seattle, or feel affection for it, the column is funny. Funny in the same way watching someone you don’t like step on a rake and hit themself in the face is funny, aka schadenfreude.
I’ve never liked Seattle so it doesn’t bother me that they’re turning into one of Trump’s sh*tholes. But then, I don’t much like cities anyway, and they’re becoming less likable (to me) every year.
Thomas Jefferson had the right idea in Monticello. Find a rural hilltop, build your home there, and keep your good neighbors at arm’s length distance. Low population density is a key ingredient of serenity.
