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I think driving a vehicle is like strapping yourself into a mobile suit of armour, thrown in exposure to lots of red tail lights and you have the perfect recipe

• CalRobert 5y ago
  Also doesn't help how much newspapers rely on car dealerships and manufacturers for advertising, or what percentage of radio listeners are driving while they listen.
• soneil 5y ago
  I honestly think cars are our "sacred cows". That's why we're not talking about people inconveniencing people, we're talking about bicycles inconveniencing cars. We're not talking about people's rights, we're talking about cars' rights. This is of course tongue-in-cheek, but do watch how we word this - surprisingly few people talk about drivers, most talk about cars. Even road rage makes a lot more sense when you realise we're rushing to defend the honour of our sacred cow. And it's so deeply cultural, not driving is like being "culturally catholic" - you might not be practicing, but you've been raised in it and accept it as the default. So we won't ask why cars have some god-given right over all other road users. That's just a given, that's how the west works. Instead we ask why those lesser road users dare inconvenience them, and how we can get those lycra-wrapped vegans out the way of our fire-breathing demigods. And within this terrible analogy, the Dutch are of course heathen. We accept that they've somehow made being godless work, but we won't even try to wrap our heads around how.