Right now, I hate driving more than anything else … even more than taxes. I am hating driving way more than all kinds of evil things I ought to be expending more energy on eradicating from my life and from this world.
A society that relies on cars to function is inherently selfish and individualistic, impersonal, non-communal, and ultimately, evil, because it isolates people thus making it untrinitarian.
When the world becomes a perfect place, everyone will walk to their friends’ houses and walk to the grocery store and walk to church. They will take trains or solar-powered buses to work.
Too many Americans grow up having too much personal space, abandoned from birth to their own bedrooms to cry themselves to sleep, driving alone from the age of 16, their whole lives spent moving from house to house, job to job, church to church, never learning to live perichoretically. Getting accustomed to having overly large boundaries for “personal space” leads to having overly large boundaries for other kinds of space as well.
So what happens to people who drive alone, every day, every week, for so many hours, year after year? They become emotionally distant and lose track of their own feelings which causes them to be unable to pick up on the feelings of others … but that doesn’t matter because most of the people they know are drivers, too, and don’t have any feelings left. Only listening to their own music, radio shows that they enjoy, they become increasingly narrow-minded and mind-numbingly ignorant. Looking at themselves in the rear-view mirror for so long makes them narcissistic.
Thou shalt not drink and drive … right? Right. What does this mean? Cars being the only mode of transportation forces people out of communion or forces them to drive drunk and be irresponsible and even murderous.
I can’t drive. I can’t parallel park. I have a driving test on Saturday morning and I just know I am going to fail it … AGAIN. I just hope the person testing me isn’t that nasty unhappy Mexican woman.
There are no cars in heaven. If God wanted us to drive, there would have been cars in Eden. I can’t wait to get to heaven.
Heh. Good one.
unfortunately, driving is a necessary evil in many places where decent public transit doesn’t exist or where people live 25 miles from town.
i sympathize on the driving test. i failed mine 4 times before i finally (!!!!!) passed it.
Um . . . actually, I don’t know how anyone would get around without driving. In a land as big as the American West, you can try walking if you like. But it’s a big world out there. And people own a lot of land. If you weren’t driving, I suppose you’d be riding . . . horses. Like they used to do.
Don’t worry about the test. Nearly everyone I know failed at least once.
I know a guy in Japan — a Ferrari owner — who lost his license for repeatedly speeding. He failed his test more than 20 times before he finally got his license again. After you eventually get your license, I think Ben should buy you a Ferrari. A pink Ferrari. If you’re going to be evil anyway you might as well enjoy it.
I like your hatred of driving and fear of failing the test equates to an anti-trinitarian evil in the world…Riggghhhttttttt. ;-) I need to learn how to do this.
Since it’s pretty clear that evil backwards is live, you can mitigate the circumstance of driving by keeping the car thoroughly stuck in reverse, thereby neutralizing (ny, redeeming!) the situation.
Praying!
i agree. i’ve been telling people this and they mock me. i know it sounds (/is?) silly because everyone does it but there are tons of people who think it’s individualistic and evil! all of life redeemed….. except cars.
that’s why i plan to move to NYC. :P