Originally Posted by
dtowncitylover
"If we had just a little awareness and freedom, we would challenge the automobile. But to take note of them harm done by progress is to begin to question the very foundations of our society and to hasten the transition to a different model of social life. Contesting the automobile is going terribly far. It is going against the opinion of fascinated humanity. Protecting the speed of cars is more important than saving people. The first minimal exercise of freedom would be to make cars a secondary accessory which is used only in exceptional circumstances. But modern people, fascinated and diverted, put things the other way around. They want to go out and they are back in their cars. They smash themselves up, thinking to grasp the reflection of happiness."
-Jacques Ellul