I'm convinced that cars are a huge contributing factor towards that atomization of society. Cars turn everything that involves them into an isolated solo activity. They remove every possible opportunity for social interaction while at the same time raising the stakes of any single persons mistake.
Take walking in a crowd vs driving in traffic. Let's say I let my attention wander and I bump into someone. I say "oops sorry my b" and continue on with my day. I do the same thing in traffic and I've potentially caused hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of damage, possibly injured myself and others, and generally caused a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved. And even if I didn't hit someone I've contributed to the oppressive feeling of paranoia that accompanies driving and the fear of damaging the vehicle you've spent a ridiculous amount of money on.
Even something as inherently communal as waiting in line is reduced to a solo experience. When you're standing in a line you can see the people immediately ahead and behind you, you can commiserate about the wait time with them, strike up a conversation, you generally see the people in the same boat as you and relate because you're all going through the same thing. Waiting in line in a car you have no way of communicating even with the people directly next to you, everyone else is reduced to "traffic", you don't see a human just an ugly, smelly, loud monstrosity of metal and plastic.
Cars promise to expand your horizons but all they do is shrink your world
Carbrains don't understand the true freedom that is taking transit on a night out. I never have to worry about a Designated Driver or dragging my hungover ass back to wherever I left my (hypothetical) car. As long as my drunk ass can find my way to the train station I can get home no problem
Same with living close to a grocery store, I basically never check what I actually have on hand since it's less than a block away. I can easily pick up whatever I'm making for supper on the way home or dash out if I forgot something. I can think about what I want to eat on the train home, pick up any ingredients I need on the walk to my place, maybe stop by a liquor store for a bottle of wine for supper, it's wonderful. I'd really struggle with planning meals if going to the store involved packing up a vehicle
That's what I was getting at, this type of lib is happy to cheer on someone like John Brown so long as they're safely isolated in their own time and context, while ignoring the actual ideology that drove them. It's like that bit Lenin wrote about great revolutionaries being flattened, watered down, and generally stripped of all revolutionary zeal until they're acceptable figures for liberal veneration
Edit: it's literally the opening to State and Revolution lol
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
I'm thinking back to 2020 and I remember saying to myself "This covid thing is probably going to just be another swine flu/SARS/minor pandemic that's being overblown in the media, so long as it doesn't start spreading in the states things should be okay"
Things were not okay
Edit: plus on top of the factors you mentions tons of people have "pandemic fatigue" and won't accept health measures like quarantines/lockdowns/mask mandates/etc until it's too late, if ever
No way the chuds around me would accept any form of lockdown even if the government tried implementing one. I don't even see mask mandates working, like half of people refused to wear them properly even during the height of covid and the second it wasn't legally mandatory basically no one wore one.
It's almost hitting $2CAD/Litre where I'm at. The funny part is that the gov tried to control prices by canceling some taxes on fuel, all it did was make sure prices stayed the same/rose anyway and the oil companies pocket the difference.
Has there been a homegrown assassination/attempt using drones? They've been used to kill people for decades now but has anyone tried to use one in a credible attempt to kill a politician/other vip?
There are so many reasons to not go on a cruise. Horrific working conditions for employees, terrible environmental impacts, economic problems at their stops, the list goes on. Plus if you really want to you can emulate the experience with a cooler full of drinks and a folding chair set up outside the cheapest all-you-can-eat buffet you can find. At that point all you're missing is for dozens of random people to cough/sneeze on you so you get horribly sick
Instead of this which won't work and will only encourage smuggling/booting/other crime they should focus their efforts on creating the healthy cigarette, or at least the health neutral cigarette
