I hear you: infernal combustion engines produce a buttload of negative externalities. So does everything. If I could wave a magic wand and get all the normies i

I hear you: infernal combustion engines produce a buttload of negative externalities. So does everything. If I could wave a magic wand and get all the normies into townhomes in walkable neighborhoods, I absolutely would (in no small part because it would get them and their nightmare mass-produced suburbs out of my daily experience). What I'm failing to convey is an opinion that homogenizing humans and their experiences is a dangerously totalitarian approach to social design. One of my favorite things about the internal combustion engine is the freedom of choice it buys pretty much everyone: an auction car is cheap, and can get you out of trouble in a pinch. To zoom out though, I suspect that we disagree fundamentally on the cornucopian/eschatonian axis tho. Even harder to reconcile than bluecult/redcult!