Comments on: Cars and Sprawl

By: kanomi

kanomi — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:22:13 +0000

I didn’t take it as such, Liberte. :)

By: Liberte

Liberte — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:06:31 +0000

I agree as well. That wasn’t ridicule.

By: bozh

bozh — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:30:38 +0000

kanomi,
that’s how i see it as well. and mns of people. even a few americans! that liberte is using ridicule as ‘answer’ and namecalling, proves we r right. hopefully, more americans wld see it! tnx

By: Liberte

Liberte — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:03:44 +0000

Help me Obi-wan Kanomi, you’re my only hope. Seriously, good rant.

By: kanomi

kanomi — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:45:47 +0000

While it is true North America still lives with the legacy of car-dictated suburban sprawl and all the waste and destruction that entails – best chronicled by James Kunstler, amongst others – that is hardly the driving force in America today.

The bailout of GM was like an afterthought, compared to the trillions of dollars looted from the treasury by organized gangs of grifters fronted by Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, and the like and given to Wall Street criminals, like tribute.

In this new regime, this new economy, you won’t be driving very far, when the TSA-hired Blackwater thugs sets up checkpoints on every on-ramp to search for “terrorists” and Peak Oil puts gasoline prices forever out of reach.

The criminal owners of your country have long since abandoned anything so prosaic as car manufacturing or suburbia as a means of profit. Industrial production (apart from war machines) is outsourced, it is irrelevant now. So is the Tea Party for that matter, or the imaginary differences between Democrats and Republicans – who differ not at all on anything that matters to their masters: endless war profiteering, banking graft, and a rapist police state.

We are ruled by vile powers, by immense concentrations of wealth, and bleating about GM is like bemoaning the oppression of a Napoleon from 200 years ago when the TSA is kicking down your door and jamming their hands into the clothes of children for all the cattle to see.

By: bozh

bozh — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:26:59 +0000

i liked the piece. yves’ thoughts on this appear as mine. i wld just emend one one of his statements about govts.
we may view govts as another branch of u.s governance. so, it is the governance; i.e., the system of rule or, rather, some people who have forced people into reliance on cars and opting for spreading around and escape from cities, towns, communities, etc.
it really does not take much perspicacity to espy that dependence on cars leads to ever greater dependence on oil people and other rich people.
these are the people who manage all of the region’s [also known as u.s or d.n in my labeling] affairs.
the idea is an ancient one: those who own all the land and in modern times those that control the money and own much of the land, solely run the store.
no worker wld ever be elected for that duty unless s/hes bought and ‘educated’ for it. tnx