Simon Munnery: Car
The paradox is this: Because we can travel large distances quickly, we have to. Because we have to, we do. Because we do, we can’t: Traffic. Strangely the only time people moan about traffic is when they’re in a car. “Bloody traffic” we say, forgetting for a moment that we are ourselves part of the problem we condemn.
Posted on January 25th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Or put another way, it’s a simple illustration of how enabling us all to exercise individual choice can actually mean we can neither exercise those choices nor get anything done. But you tell the libertarian kids that these days and they’ll never believe you…