Monstrosity

[Rev Chuck]

Charles Gavette wrote:

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> The U.S. Interstate System is the largest monument ever built to late
> capitalism. This monument and its use is the leading cause of environmental
> degredation, unless the challenger be a collective apathy fueled by greed,
> pride and the ever-popular exploitive ego. This relentless machine is not
> offering solutions to the problem it is leaving behind: "Do the work,
> however haphazardly, get your money, and go to the next place," seems the
> scenario. When was the last time anyone reading this seriously considered
> some of the devastating parameters of fossil fuel use? What does it do to
> the human mind?

FWIW, look carefully at U.S. interstate highway design, then look at 
that of the pre-WWII German Autobahn.  Eerily alike, and no more 
identical are the two systems than when the Pennsylvania Turnpike is 
compared.  

Note how both systems convert an oversized parcel of land into a 
superwide highway separated by a large median strip.  The German 
military's strategy was that if an enemy dropped bombs, damage 
would never be so severe that the road couldn't be put back into 
operation within an hour's repair time.  

-- 
Nothing says you're insane like prayer.  
Rev Chuck, Alt.Atheism #203, Ordained Reverend, ULC, 17 March, 1997.
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