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This is what the walkable city's crowd doesn't understand. Cars are pure freedom. Mass transit is state biopower/biopolitics.

• culi 4y ago
  the state built the roads you need to feel that "freedom". It's also the one maintaining them
  • dsfyu404ed 4y ago
    Those roads and their economic merit predate the state's involvement. The might be lower quality in some places without the state subsidy but those roads would still exist. See also: railroads
  • Dalewyn 4y ago
    Here in the US, government is of the people, by the people, for the people. The municipal, state, and federal governments build and maintain public roads at and for our pleasure. We haven't gotten into private and toll roads yet, either; the freedom for a landowner to decide what cars go where on his land. So yes, cars in the US are exemplars of pure freedom one way or the other.
• FatActor 4y ago
  > Cars are pure freedom I think this is more a statement about your priorities than a generality about cars.