And society has struggled to keep up. Is it okay to play a video without headphones? What if it’s a busy street? What about FaceTime? Is that really different from talking to a real person in front of you? What are the rules for behavior?

...Private action to set the rules for behavior is more important in a multicultural society, not less. Having a clear set of rules gives people something tangible to debate over. Everyone knows the discomfort of realizing you’ve broken some unwritten rule and struggling to figure out what you did and why. It’s much better to know that there are strong expectations; then you can decide whether it’s worth it for you to break them.

...More artists should follow Bridgers’ example, but also, more people should get comfortable voicing their opinions. I was sitting in a diner doing some work a few weeks ago, and a couple began watching TV on their iPad. So, I just asked them if they could use headphones, and they turned it off. I did the same at a coffee shop a few days later, and the other person apologized and turned it down.

I should be out in the garage working on a blanket ladder I’m trying to build for my wife.  Its one of my first woodworking projects since I’m trying find a sober hobby.  I’m in my living room instead watching the first period of the Winter Classic because my Pens are playing Boston (hockey is the only sport I follow at all, and I’ve been a Penguins fan since I was 7 or 8).

Increasing the supply of housing in dense, expensive neighborhoods like Midtown Manhattan is literally the only way to fight the affordable housing crisis and one of the best ways to fight climate change.

I don’t understand how the Atlantic can print weekly bangers from Jerusalem Demsas and then turn around and publish literally the opposite of true stuff like this.

The connections between NIMBYism, eugenicist / racist movements like Zero Population Growth, and climate change.

The people that don't want low-rise apartments? in THEIR neighborhoods? or want to PrEsErVe ChArAcTeR!! are creating policies because they don't want THOSE people next door.

They would rather burn the earth to a cinder than have to give up their wasteful car-dependent single-family-home suburbs because they want to preserve their "quality of life."

I wrote recently that there's something about suburbs that is anti-communitarian in spirit. As James Howard Kunstler noted, it's a cartoon of country houses, in a cartoon of the countryside, so everyone can live like Thoreau and not be bothered by other people.

"I won't be told what to do by THOSE people" animates about 75% of these people's politics; the other 25% being "why should MY tax dollars go to THOSE people?"