ChicoSuave comments on days of future past

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Americans aren't car brained, they're trapped in a system they didn't build and can't control.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

A distinction without a difference.

A mouse raised in a cage will be cage-brained.

Too many USAians can't imagine life without driving a car, the same way that mouse can't imagine a forest.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How do you expect someone to imagine life without a car, when they live in an area where you have to drive three miles to get to the nearest store, and there are no sidewalks or bike lanes?

Can you really shame the caged mouse for being unable to imagine a forest?

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are we shaming them? I'm just acknowledging they can't even conceive of an alternate future, which I think what "car-brained" is getting at.

But it's a bit like the copper tops in the Matrix--they'll always potentially be your enemy, through no fault of their own. For instance, these car brained people you are so eager to have sympathy for will show up in droves to complain about anything that would even theoretically lengthen their car commute by even a microsecond.

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