Living in America: a Guide for the Perplexed Chapter 21
Driving is how americans get to work. Now in olden times, people didn't make such a distinction between work and life, when you got up you started travelling, gathered enough food for a while. Then somebody put a couple wheels behind a horse (knowing human nature, following some disasterous attempts at putting the wheels in front) and the first travelling occupation, warfare, was born. Which more or less brings us to today, since the car/oil economy was born under a recent conflict in that age-old get rich quick scheme, what we like to call the second world war. It isn't a particularly safe way to get around, and it isn't a particularly pleasant way to get around, and it isn't a particularly clean or cheap or efficient way to get around... But, um, well. Anyway.
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