The dialectic of people power against the centralizing forces of control.

I mean I'll hand it to him on that one that if you do the non-public transport stuff like roughing it through the wild that's probably really doable

From Minnesota to Washington is a lot of country...

what's next, a license to make toast in my own damn toaster?

is it

I think we could get rid of most of this stuff without significant blowback if we reduce the speed limits.

Unironically yes. At least the current emission checks are levied against individuals, when it's manufacturers who should be watched. And it's far, far, FAR better for the environment to drive an old car into the ground than to buy a new one with fewer immediate emissions. Not to mention the fact that fuel efficiency isn't even taken into account, so you could burn 2/3 the gas in the first place, but still required to take your vehicle off the road. Current emission regulation sucks ass, and is exactly backwards.

Driver's licenses are also a joke. They are ridiculously easy to get, to the point where it's difficult to imagine anyone deciding to get on the road and risk their lives if they wouldn't be able to pass the tests. And registration is just a way for the cops to find you; not helpful at all.

On this one, the "libertarians" (propertarians) are correct. At least in the status quo implementation of these things.

(We drive on the correct side of the road to avoid dying, not because the state makes us do so. Also, as with so many things, the reason we can't take care of shit ourselves and are "stuck" begging the state to do so is that it violently prohibits community solutions to problems.)

This dude is like Forrester for MTBs if anything. Actual Forrester was way too urbanism-headed to think of "bicycle to cross wilderness border" as a use case