Why Cars Are Important (To Every Person Who Enjoys Freedom)
Posted by freedomforall 1 month ago to Government
Excerpt:
"Many people aren’t especially interested in cars but ought to be be – for essentially the same reason that people ought to be more interested in government, per Lenin’s dictum about government being interested in you.
People like Lenin are very interested in cars. More finely, they understand that so long as the average person is both free and able to own a car and free and able to drive it pretty much whenever he likes wherever he likes, the average person will be a free person. The freedom to drive one’s own vehicle spoils all the plans of the people who want to control people – for it is very hard to control people when you do not control their freedom of movement.
Understand this and you will understand everything that’s happening with regard to cars – which seems otherwise inexplicable because it is otherwise nonsensical.
Understand what they know – and hope you’ve forgotten.
Try to think of all the things all-too-many of us have come to take for granted – such as the freedom to live a considerable distance from work, so as to live in a nicer (and probably more affordable) home. The freedom to put distance between yourself and the undesirable – such as (for many of us) too many neighbors too close to us. The car made it possible for average people to get out of cities and crowded towns to raise their families in what they considered to be nicer places. The car made long trips – a for vacations, as to visit family or friends in another part of the country – easy as well as inexpensive.
Think about the flexibility of just going somewhere, maybe for no particular reason at all – beyond just wanting to go somewhere, spur-of-the-moment.
But – most of all – think about how owning a car has freed you from being on anyone else’s timetable.
And so from government."
"Many people aren’t especially interested in cars but ought to be be – for essentially the same reason that people ought to be more interested in government, per Lenin’s dictum about government being interested in you.
People like Lenin are very interested in cars. More finely, they understand that so long as the average person is both free and able to own a car and free and able to drive it pretty much whenever he likes wherever he likes, the average person will be a free person. The freedom to drive one’s own vehicle spoils all the plans of the people who want to control people – for it is very hard to control people when you do not control their freedom of movement.
Understand this and you will understand everything that’s happening with regard to cars – which seems otherwise inexplicable because it is otherwise nonsensical.
Understand what they know – and hope you’ve forgotten.
Try to think of all the things all-too-many of us have come to take for granted – such as the freedom to live a considerable distance from work, so as to live in a nicer (and probably more affordable) home. The freedom to put distance between yourself and the undesirable – such as (for many of us) too many neighbors too close to us. The car made it possible for average people to get out of cities and crowded towns to raise their families in what they considered to be nicer places. The car made long trips – a for vacations, as to visit family or friends in another part of the country – easy as well as inexpensive.
Think about the flexibility of just going somewhere, maybe for no particular reason at all – beyond just wanting to go somewhere, spur-of-the-moment.
But – most of all – think about how owning a car has freed you from being on anyone else’s timetable.
And so from government."
the altruist morality--until an alternative becomes clear. That is, until the movement to convert the people of this country away from it and to Objectivism--becomes effective. When will that be? Who knows?A start could be made by a vigorous campaign to abolish the public education system(s) in this country. Of course, that would seem to be, and would be received, as abominable heresy.But don't let yourself be intimidated by that.
I've linked to this article before, but this seems like a good time to do it again. The last lines quoted above ("But -- most of all --think about how owning a car has freed you from being on anyone else's timetable. And so from government.") reminded me of an article from George Will published a long time ago.
The title of the article is "Why Liberals Love Trains", and it was published back in 2011. But it's still relevant today.
Here is an excerpt: "To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make."
The full article:
https://www.newsweek.com/will-why-lib...
Three great thought producing points.
1. The Goverment is interested in you.
2. The environment is helped by EV’s it is nonsensical in every way.
3. Imagine a time when it is no longer feasible. Imagine what it was like – in China – during the “lockdowns.” People over there actually were – literally – “locked down.” In the cities. In their apartments. All movement – other than bipedally – was easily controlled because people were under control. You stayed put because not-staying-put was no longer a feasible option.
I have been telling people that’s why they are building an incredible amount o massive 4 story Apartments . They only have to guard a few exits for hundreds of people. Can’t guard all the exits of single family dwellings. FuQ them all. ESADMF
Dishartening.....
If you leave they will have to use your cell phone or the nationwide
network of 'traffic cameras' to locate you if you use cash.
The US economy thrives on a mobile workforce. The only ones who want to constrain that are the elitists who want to control people and create more urban jungles and urban plantations they can exploit.