DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Read it.

Hell might actually be other people  — at least if you’re really smart.

I, for one, am prepared to believe it.

First, they find that people who live in more densely populated areas tend to report less satisfaction with their life overall. “The higher the population density of the immediate environment, the less happy” the survey respondents said they were. Second, they find that the more social interactions with close friends a person has, the greater their self-reported happiness.

But there was one big exception. For more intelligent people, these correlations were diminished or even reversed.

I’ve been saying that for decades. Every bad thing that has ever happened to me has been caused by another person — typically one with whom, given the choice, I would not have associated.

Why would high population density cause a person to be less happy? There’s a whole body of sociological research addressing this question. But for the most visceral demonstration of the effect, simply take a 45-minute ride on a crowded rush-hour Red Line train and tell me how you feel afterward.

Heh. Note that the Crust promote and encourage ‘density’ for everybody else but rarely inflict it on themselves.

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