when cars first became a thing people actually hated them way more than we do now, a significant chunk of people outright wanted cars to be basically entirely banned and were successful in legislating things we’d find extremely silly nowadays, like requiring a person walking in front of the car waving a red flag, or coming to a full halt and like… dismantling the car when a horse passes it!
at this point cars are like an eldrich entity so deeply ingrained in our minds that we simply cannot imagine a world where they don’t exist, it’s insane.
Like a lot of our problems: They were obviously a problem when they were new and continued to be obviously a problem up until they’d propagandized generations that grew up with them being a reality. It’s not so much a matter of the people of the past being dim-witted enough to go in for these bad ideas but rather the robber barons who’re interested in them spending a lot of time to normalize them in order to get much richer off of them at all our continued expense.
Who knew “fuck cars” is almost 100 years old?
when cars first became a thing people actually hated them way more than we do now, a significant chunk of people outright wanted cars to be basically entirely banned and were successful in legislating things we’d find extremely silly nowadays, like requiring a person walking in front of the car waving a red flag, or coming to a full halt and like… dismantling the car when a horse passes it!
at this point cars are like an eldrich entity so deeply ingrained in our minds that we simply cannot imagine a world where they don’t exist, it’s insane.
Like a lot of our problems: They were obviously a problem when they were new and continued to be obviously a problem up until they’d propagandized generations that grew up with them being a reality. It’s not so much a matter of the people of the past being dim-witted enough to go in for these bad ideas but rather the robber barons who’re interested in them spending a lot of time to normalize them in order to get much richer off of them at all our continued expense.