I had thought that all of those previous discussions we had about the growth of the suburbs and home ownership, about rising energy consumption, about America's runaway consumerism, and car addiction indicated that consumption was increasing. I will take all subsequent arguments about the greedy US consuming the worlds resources with a pinch of salt. At least those LBOers who were worrying about the environment can take heart from the fact that the US contribution to global warming is being held down.
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I was patiently waiting for you to bring this up.
What you surely don't recall about the auto portion of your list of past discussions is the little back and forth we had a while back in which I said "...although I love my car, and enjoy driving, I'd like to drive less and live within walking and biking distance of food stores and so on."
In your reply, you noted with amusement that I harbored a "quaint dislike of cars" which was a particularly odd statement coming, as it did, on the heels of my love note to auto technology and speed ticket harvesting driving.
>From that brief exchange, I learned something everyone
who has participated in this "barbaric" thread
business should know by now: that although you're a
smart and pleasant fellow, with many interesting
things to say, you really don't engage your debating
opponents' arguments. With a song in your heart you
distractedly skip past them like Ophelia on her way to
the lake.
All in good fun I suppose but there's a whiff of dismissive disrespect in the air.
.d.
If I were not myself, I would arrest myself.
Slavoj Zizek
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