Bow down to the combustion engine...

[undergroundpanther]

Cars..
I was hit by one walking across the street.
If you live in the sprawl you don't drive you are screwed. Car aparthied.And it is by design.

Personal freedom and independence should mean more than the ability to go wherever one wants, whenever one wants. Americans should also have the freedom to travel how they want. When cars are the only option, freedom is diminished.
http://www.walkablestreets.com/apart.htm

Alongside bias against poor people and African-Americans is automobile apartheid, born of fifty years of suburban sprawl. First-class citizens drive motor vehicles, second-class Americans walk, cycle, or ride public transit.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/10/25/224914/77

Scariest parts about the history of car culture

What do cars got to do with fascism?
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Car_Connection_TWE.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931084,00.html

it is expected to share the streets, with horse-drawn carriages, bicyclists and pedestrians……The modern concept of traffic engineering is to introduce a network of special highways, to serve the needs of long-distance travellers and to be used by the fastest automobiles (for which it is meant) …(p49 Wolfgang Sachs)
http://www.countercurrents.org/en-shiva170304.htm

Murderous middle class by Nicholas Gordon

The murderous middle class has no
Hard evidence of harm.
Each paddles round the cubicle,
Maintained by what goes on.

Unburdened by communion with
Romantic harmonies
Discerned by a too-willing heart,
Each dreams of grace and ease.

Reason serves the scavengers, while
Only nightmares tell,
Unspeakable, the evils wrought
So they might thrive in hell.

Middle classes mind the store,
Indentured to the wind,
Demanding nothing but their due,
Decent, honest, kind.

Little do they contemplate,
Entrapped in loss and gain,
Canticles of misery
Lamenting lifelong pain.

As they consume, they wonder why
So many others have to die,
Strangled in their name.

http://www.poemsforfree.com/themur.html