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From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises on 9 May 2010 02:35
On May 8, 4:53 pm, Dänk 110100100 <dank...(a)rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 11:57 am, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana
> and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises" <comandante.ban...(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You and only you can get on a bicycle and assume personal
> > responsibility. This is the "ANARCHIST" solution. The role of
> > government is to make it SAFE for you --or we live by the Law of the
> > Jungle.
>
> A famous anarchist philosopher once observed that technological
> progress REDUCES freedom, and used the invention of the automobile as
> an example.  When first introduced, autos seemed to provide greater
> freedom of mobility, but today they have reduced it by changing the
> very nature of society.  For the last century, cities and suburbs have
> been designed around the automobile, making it impractical to walk or
> even ride a bike to work or shop.  The freedom to walk has been
> curtailed, since roads are for cars, not pedestrians, and now there
> really no place to walk to, since everything is located so far away.
>
> Your proposed bike solution also reduces freedom, making it the
> opposite of anarchism.  To bike safely, bike lanes must be built and
> maintained, just like roads for automobiles.  The government has an
> interest in reducing national energy usage, so once bike lanes are
> built, energy taxes will be increased to discourage driving.  What you
> think is a 'choice' to ride a bicycle becomes just another government
> mandate, and your freedom to drive a car is now curtailed.

Let's call "BUILDING BIKE FACILITIES" the socialist way, and having
the "BIKES TAKE THE LANE" the anarchist way. Notice that minimal
government intervention allowing the bike to run like a vehicle, with
the huge difference that the car MUST EXIT THE LANE 30' before and
after the bike, making it much safer for the cyclist.
From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises on 9 May 2010 02:35
On May 8, 4:53 pm, Dänk 110100100 <dank...(a)rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 11:57 am, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana
> and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises" <comandante.ban...(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You and only you can get on a bicycle and assume personal
> > responsibility. This is the "ANARCHIST" solution. The role of
> > government is to make it SAFE for you --or we live by the Law of the
> > Jungle.
>
> A famous anarchist philosopher once observed that technological
> progress REDUCES freedom, and used the invention of the automobile as
> an example.  When first introduced, autos seemed to provide greater
> freedom of mobility, but today they have reduced it by changing the
> very nature of society.  For the last century, cities and suburbs have
> been designed around the automobile, making it impractical to walk or
> even ride a bike to work or shop.  The freedom to walk has been
> curtailed, since roads are for cars, not pedestrians, and now there
> really no place to walk to, since everything is located so far away.
>
> Your proposed bike solution also reduces freedom, making it the
> opposite of anarchism.  To bike safely, bike lanes must be built and
> maintained, just like roads for automobiles.  The government has an
> interest in reducing national energy usage, so once bike lanes are
> built, energy taxes will be increased to discourage driving.  What you
> think is a 'choice' to ride a bicycle becomes just another government
> mandate, and your freedom to drive a car is now curtailed.

Let's call "BUILDING BIKE FACILITIES" the socialist way, and having
the "BIKES TAKE THE LANE" the anarchist way. Notice that minimal
government intervention allowing the bike to run like a vehicle, with
the huge difference that the car MUST EXIT THE LANE 30' before and
after the bike, making it much safer for the cyclist.
From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises on 9 May 2010 02:48
On May 8, 11:36 pm, russo...(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
wrote:
> In article <b78d517c-6c24-48e1-a7c9-ad3b9e878...(a)t34g2000prd.googlegroups..com>,
>
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nk_110100100?=  <dank...(a)rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
> >A famous anarchist philosopher once observed that technological
> >progress REDUCES freedom, and used the invention of the automobile as
> >an example.  When first introduced, autos seemed to provide greater
> >freedom of mobility, but today they have reduced it by changing the
> >very nature of society.  For the last century, cities and suburbs have
> >been designed around the automobile, making it impractical to walk or
> >even ride a bike to work or shop.
>
> Before the car, a person might spend his whole damn life in one small
> town.  Or worse, on his own farm, only walking into the small town at
> intervals.... because it took all day and he didn't have the time to spare.
> --

And then came the car to replace his legs, making man a complete idiot
dependent on the car.

Obesity and disease sets in and you got a consumer-couch potato that
feeds the Medical Industry, the Junk Food Industry & Big Oil, which in
turn feeds war and terrorism.

But there are smarter ways to move a man nowadays other than the car.
A BIKE IS A VEHICLE FOR FREEDOM, provided we have SAFE ROADS.

From: Matthew Russotto on 9 May 2010 14:18
In article <40be83e6-5953-401e-a6f1-fe4d11a85265(a)42g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
Phlip <phlip2005(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>On May 8, 8:36=A0pm, russo...(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
>wrote:
>
>> Before the car, a person might spend his whole damn life in one small
>> town.
>
>Uh, they thought trains were magical, and refused to board one?

Passenger trains didn't go out to their small town.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
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