[lbo-talk] cars

[// ravi]

On May 10, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>> [WS:] I noticed that long time ago (without reading the book) and I consider it a very bad thing. It alienates people from their environment (both human and natural) and confines them to an artificially created bubble in which the main stimuli amidst the utmost boredom of constant staring into the roadway are the talk show radio, roadside billboards and other cars interfering with your right of way. I would not go as far as claiming that this artificial bubble is the main factor explaining the level of alienation, individualism, bigotry, and brainwashing of the US public, but it certainly is a factor.
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> Since when are cars just a u.s. thing?
> 

For me: since Locomotive 38. That (the US love affair with automobiles) is what we were told, back in the third world, to interpret the story :-).

	—ravi