Thanks Listers for responding so wholeheartedly to the strange thread that
kind of took on a life of it's own. I was not trying to be a worry-wart or
encite a riot. I just want everyone to think about conclusions that can
easily be made by examining today's trends and the ideas and images that
Americans are bombarded with on all media. We are all subject to a
conjured peer group pressure and the unthinkable can be popularized in a
short amount of time and become totally acceptable. How else can you
explain Germany in the thirties and tell me, if someone told you ten years
ago that the kids would be wearing massive tatoos and piercing parts of
their bodies that would make an Ubangi warrior blush, would you have
believed them? I rest my case! My degree is in Broadcast Communications
with a speciality in the study of popular culture through the ages. There
is no limit to the changes that can be made quickly by using a well
orchestrated and good humored media blitz. Changed attitudes can translate
to new voting patterns. New attitudes can bend or ammend existing laws.
Though most of these existing laws have been put into place for valid
reasons, and shouldn't be removed from the books, they will be the vehicles
that the general population, once properly prejudiced against cars and
disgusted with their percieved destruction of our guality of life, will
demand a different future. I am not suggesting that we repeal the laws or
remove government from our backs or any of that other milita garbage.
There are two ways to attatck this anti-car mentality. Education, get your
friends and neighbors to first understand that there actually IS an
impending problem and try to reason with them and get them to identify when
they are being propagandized, and two, work on defining the local laws to a
point that there is little left up for inturpitation. These are positive
actions that we can take while the whole world goes to hell in a handbasket
and there's not a thing that we can do about it! See you on the Funway! -
Rick Feibusch - Venice, CA.
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