This is a follow-up to Retrofit Suburbia Redux
At Ezra Klein, in a post about The Costs of Cap and Trade, a commentator, “Black Political Analysis” frames the Auto-Uber-Alles position as:
I intuitively agree with your logic, which is correct government policy can move the markets in any particular direction. The real matter is at what points will Americans see increased regulation as better than the status quo. For now, Americans seem quite willing, not content, but willing to pay $4/gallon. The American desire to have the most liberty possible (i.e. the government not telling the people what to do) is quite high; so economic circumstances must be quite severe before Americans embrace your ideas (even though they are good ideas).
July 4, 2008 12:03 PM
I answer:
Except when it comes to regulations preventing a lot near a suburban transport stop from being redeveloped to ground floor professional or retail space with townhouses stacked on top … sacrificing liberty in that situation is done without a moment’s thought.
Cars are liberating if you are the one with the car and not too many other people have them in any given area. Either take away your car, or establish a system of government subsidy and regulation that ensures that everyone must ride a car to get anywhere, and the liberty vanishes.
Indeed, a freedom that rests on the lack of freedom of others is not what I write down under the heading of “liberty”.
Yijing discusses the Future of Docudharma and 3 Views of Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez
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… uh, sorry, first you have to bring the Beauty Platform to life.
As long as its beautiful, its fine
Beautiful cities
Beautiful suburbs
Beautiful farms
Beautiful mountains
Beautiful skies
Beautiful seas
… there’s so much to work for …
The problem is assholes.
Nicola Tesla wanted to create free energy for all.
His financial backer only wanted to know where he could put the meter to charge people for the privledge.
It is said that Dr. Moray drove a 1930 electric car powered by the energy from the universe itself.
It is unconventional theory that says Stanley Meyer patented a way to disassociate water to fuel an internal combustion engine.
Control over other people is best accomplished by stuffing them into high density cell blocks/apartments and then telling them what they may and may not do.
If that does not suffice I am of course learning the ways of the horseman. I can tell you this if more rewarding that simply sticking a key in the ignition.