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The Car is Dead, Long Live the King |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
 This is not some kind of fantasy dream of over-indulged wishful thinking! The car is dead. The problem is that the waddling wallow of the great blinkered masses don't know it yet. Even though its obvious. The car is dead, stinking, rotting, gone. Road kill. Cactus. It takes a while for the stratospheric inertia of mass un-critical thinking to realise a change when change is sweeping over us like a tsunami of the obvious. We have in our midst the solution, the future. We have a choice that is more advanced, technically, economically, socio-culturally and health-wise than the diseased tin carcass of gas-fumed mobile tin. You know to what I refer. It is OK to mention it. It is OK to say it out loud. The car king is dead. He has no clothes. The bicycle always was and always will be king. A forgotten god. Ready to forgive and forget, and ride us to the renaissance of the world. And so sayeth my latest epistle to Bicyclism Blog: The Car is Dead, Long Live the King
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National Recall of Dummies |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 |
 The unreality distortion fields most of us wear when it comes to our generic acceptance of the terrorism of cars is one of the worlds truly great feats of mass-psychosis. With that in mind, it is all a bit rich when we read of the front page attention to the dangers posed by a bad batch of baby dummies; or by the apparent apocalypse of swine flue for that matter. How and why are people able to ignore the real killer in our midst? Comparing the death threat of flue or bad baby dummies with the terrorism posed by cars is a comparison that simply cannot use the same scale. If we were to approach the dangers of car drivers with the same metric as that applied to swine flue, the folk would be treating cars like nuclear warheads set to explode. Because people are so addicted to the perverse cult of motoring, they would, it would seem, prefer to bury their heads in the sand. Read the full story in Bicyclism Blog: National Recall for Unsafe Dummies
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 June 2009 )
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
 In this world of overwhelming complexity, there are many levers to pull through which to direct change. No one lever pull is more certain than any other but it's the cautious cleverness with which we find and pull those levers that matters most. Surely there must be some extra powerful, easy to pull levers through which to address the chronic concerns of human obesity, global warming and the plain old uglification of our cultural places by the blight of the car. What if there was a single lever that could be pulled to right all these wrongs in one simple pull? I think there is just such a lever to be found. It's an astonishingly simple obvious lever; but a lever that most would rather pretend was not there. But if we did invoke this particular fix, I am convinced progress could be made. What's this lever? Read the latest post to Bicyclism Blog to find out: Parking a Disease
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