[lbo-talk] The collective unconscious knows...

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Sep 18 23:23:34 PDT 2007


Saw a bumpersticker yesterday: "Your Hummer can suck my Prius." Thin wit.

But, yeah, we can't afford the armor anymore. And, if the collective unconscious does know, perhaps this heralds recession (at best).

Joanna

Robert Wrubel wrote:


>Yes! Chrysler has the most egregious examples --
>their big cars now look like remakes from Bonnie and
>Clyde. The armored vehicle look came in with SUVs,
>and reached its epitome in the Hummer. Many Cadillacs
>seem to descend from Batman movies. There's another
>strain, though -- the modern-day versions of the
>Citroen Deux Chevaux. They seem to be intended for
>the rest of us, the humble but obstinate proletarians.
>
>BobW
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>--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Anyone else struck by the fact that most of the new
>>American auto body
>>designs echo 30's vehicles?
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>>Joanna
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