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Because an individual with a car can drive wherever he or she wants. They are, conceptually at least, a liberating force. They are not consistent with the total
by NoboruWataya 4y ago
Because an individual with a car can drive wherever he or she wants. They are, conceptually at least, a liberating force. They are not consistent with the totalitarianism of Big Brother's society.
In 1949, a society where everyone has their own car would have been seen as a utopian vision of the future. We see it differently today, of course.
- FooBarBizBazz 4y ago> They are, conceptually at least, a liberating force. At one level I agree. At an individual level, you can go places you previously couldn't, at previously-unheard-of speeds, without asking anyone. At another level though -- the automobile depends on the collective to maintain roads, particularly highways, and it constrains motion to one dimension. A world in which the State didn't build roads and in which automobiles were consequently much less useful would in some ways be more free. Less legible, less accessible, more dangerous probably (since harder to transmit state power and police law), but more free, like the interior of the Amazon or the Congo or Papua. A more wild place. But you have, I suspect, thought of all this: > We see it differently today, of course.