28 March

It might be surprising that I actually love cars. But I also think you can either have mass car ownership, or a functioning society. You can't have both. Notice how high on the list cars and roads are for those with libertarian beliefs. What makes cars lethal to societies is that they combine two things - mobility, and territory. Traditionally those were opposed things. You can see the territorial aspect with road rage - each person feels their car as like an extension of their home. Roads and cars mobilise and weaponise territorial aggression, in multiple ways, not just with our rage inside them. They fracture societies across multiple dimensions.