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Even moreso than guns, the automobile industry has been waging an incredibly successful propaganda campaign for over a century now equating the ownership and us
by rjbwork 1y ago
Even moreso than guns, the automobile industry has been waging an incredibly successful propaganda campaign for over a century now equating the ownership and use of a personal automobile with freedom.
- snapcaster 1y agoThis is true, people having a complete meltdown to the idea of walkable cities was very telling
- potato3732842 1y agoIt's because it's being peddled by the same "oh, I know how we'll use government to fix this problem that isn't top 10 on anyone's list" types who's in previous generations gave us unwalkable cities, unaffordable housing, and the modern urban-suburban hellscape. While individual points are supported or resisted individually and by individuals, when you sum it up on a population level it's like a gut reaction against listening to someone who's lead you astray before. Basically the people pushing changes lack the political and cultural capital to see them through because the capital was wasted for naught in decades past.
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- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y agoHave you tried to move around US w/o it? As propaganda goes, it is pretty spot on.
- rglullis 1y agoWhat is cause and what is effect, and which of those do people can control?
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y agoEh, I guess I am talking to militant anti-SUV people. Allow me to rephrase: - Your environment imposes restrictions upon you - Even if you can control your actions, optimal choice is to move within those restrictions - Doing things that attempt to move outside those restrictions are not optimal - Some people choose the optimal path - Some people are upset that the optimal path is chosen Good grief, why am I bothering with nonsense so early?
- rglullis 1y ago> Doing things that attempt to move outside those restrictions are not optimal. Some people choose the optimal path. Optimal for what? > Some people are upset that the optimal path is chosen. Person A chooses the "optimal path" (according to whatever definition of "optimal" A has) for their benefit. Their "optimal path" puts person B at risk and forces them to deal with unwanted costs and changes their environment. Do you think that person B is wrong to be upset about the choice of person A or not?
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y ago<< Optimal for what? Optimal for the environment I am living in. << Do you think that person B is wrong to be upset about the choice of person A or not? Oh boy. I am not responsible for you. By this tirade, you only demonstrate to me you are willing to make suboptimal choices so that you can feel better about yourself. That is cool, but don't drag me down with you. By your logic, each time you breathe out CO2, it forces me to deal with unwanted costs and a change to my environment. Can you hear how ridiculous that argument is at its core?
- rglullis 1y agoCan you hear yourself and realize how ridiculous your reduction ad absurdum is? Let me help you: taking your analogy to the other extreme, and it seems like you shouldn't be mad at anyone if they decide to light up a cigarette in an elevator.
- baggachipz 1y agoOnly because the car companies made it that way through lobbying and stifling mass transit efforts.
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y agoI live in Chicagoland. Nothing is stifling it except state government itself. I don't want to get on my high horse, but I actually have a choice and it is bad enough now that I opt to drive on a highway. And that is the 'good' mass transit example. FWIW, I originally came from an old EU country. Mass transit was the way to move around and let me assure you that the government is not better there. The issue is more cultural than anything else.
- baggachipz 1y agoI would argue that it's cultural specifically due to the decades of lobbying and back-room deals. Yeah, the government isn't helping things because it's beyond their ability now. It would take a similar decades-long approach to shift course, and cost gobs of money.