> As for the freedom. The only time I felt free in the United States was as a teenager when I started driving. It was a very heady coky rushy feeling. Of course, when driving meant driving to work and tearing up four hundred dollars a month for the privilege....I felt anything but free. Still, I respectfully sumbit, that most Americans cling to their cars for precisely this reason: driving makes them feel masterly and free.
I'm often surprised there's not more carnage on Los Angeles roadways. That there is not I think says something about human cooperation. Just because it's a fucked way to organize transportation, doesn't mean we can't see in it positive evidence of people working together.