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From the car-free point of view, you already surrendered autonomy when you scaled your regular transport needs to the point where they can't be easily fulfilled
by usrusr 10y ago
From the car-free point of view, you already surrendered autonomy when you scaled your regular transport needs to the point where they can't be easily fulfilled by walking.
- jessaustin 10y ago...and cycling!
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoWhich can satisfy almost the same trip distances as cars, most days.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoYou appear to be arguing that cars and highways made people less free?
- usrusr 10y agoI was arguing autonomy, not lateral movement. But sure, also less free in a certain, obviously very limited way: many people are never more than a few hundred yards away from their car. They get perfectly used to that state, but for someone used to transporting just their own person around (using whatever third party technology available), always having to return to the parking spot would feel like a ball and chain. This is arguably a much smaller limitation than reliance on third party transportation, but the thing is that on this level, freedom is entirely subjective. To a "minimalist living" advocate, freedom is being able to fit your life in a suitcase, to a stuff collector freedom is having every thing you ever had available just an attic dive away. Giving up a freedom you are used to have feels much bigger than gaining a freedom you have learned to do without. emacs vs vi.