|
|||||
His e-mail subject was: Don't Blame BP |
Tags:
Well, it is better not to drive a car, all else being equal. All else isn't equal for lots of people, and they should drive cars.
For what it's worth I think there's a lot of zealotry of the newly converted in these conversations. My parents raised a whole family pretty much car free and vegetarian and they manage not to harangue people about these topics in every other conversation they have, even as they do try to get people to think about their lifestyle choices. As these things go the guy who's most hardcore about insisting everyone in a car is a murderer is the one most likely to end up tooling around Wilmette in a Ford Navigator, so whatever.
At this point in my life I only have a work vehicle and no personal car so I am part way there...
notoriousDUG said:At this point in my life I only have a work vehicle and no personal car so I am part way there...
Work's got to get done, bikes and tools have to get shipped unless backyard smelting really catches on.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801/
this article makes a pretty good rejoinder to this kind of claim
Well as long as we're tossing out favorite quotes, how about Henry Miller's reflections on our noble country...from a hundred years ago:
"...Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?"
203 members
262 members
269 members
63 members
172 members