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People have gotten so used to flying they can't see how dependent and entitled they've become. When I share that I'm about to start my fifth year without flying
by spodek 7y ago
People have gotten so used to flying they can't see how dependent and entitled they've become. When I share that I'm about to start my fifth year without flying, everyone tells me how impossible it is for them but they never try.
If they tried, they'd realize how much flying is spreading their lives and communities thin, undermining community.
A flight will bring you to a distant loved one. Flying in general disperses communities so you have to fly. Meanwhile we let our communities get covered with litter and garbage dreaming of escape enabled by flying.
- mansoor_ 7y agoPlease tell me you're not driving the same journey?
- ppf 7y agoIndeed. The mpg per person for a modern passenger plane is better than the average US car (assuming a single-person journey by car). The most important factor here is miles travelled, not the mode of transport used.
- keanzu 7y agoThe fatality per mile rate is also wildly lower for commercial flight, so driving instead of flying is 750x [1] more likely to result in you never making it to your destination. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
- cafard 7y agoThe second time I took a flight, it was from Denver to San Francisco, to visit family. At that point, the nuclear family's itinerary had been Pennsylvania-DC-Ohio-Colorado. The uncle and aunt's itinerary had been Pennsylvania-New York-Kentucky-Texas-California. All this dispersal was managed by automobile.