I live in a european city with very good public transport, so I can get by without ever owning a drivers license. I think beyond car usage, the entire scape of urban planning is vile in the modern U.S., UK, Australia, etc. . I've seen pictures of Dresden after the second world war and even that doesn't look as wartorn and empty as downtown Houston. People here get upset about the strict regulations surrounding historical buildings, but in the U.S. tearing down some ancient monument is entirely okay, if you build a highway over it. Fuck, they tore down an ancient tree in Australia, that was important to indigenous people, for a road. Zoning laws also negatively affect all this. In the U.S. you need a car to go grocery shooping, whereas in Japan they have an elegant system, that is much more laissez-faire and allows people to not require a car.
It's comical, that people made up theories about how public transport and better zoning are some NWO-conspiracy to lock us in. If I was a dictator in the U.S., I would simply close highways out of major cities and would be done. I mean, fuck, to properly move around you need a government-issued license, whereas here you can just hop on the metro. In order to increase the freedom of humans, it's necessary to allow them more and better and more accessible ways to move around. Cars will always be necessary and I don't have a problem with their mere existence or people keeping them, but there ought to be ways for people to avoid their usage, if they don't want to use them. I don't know, I have a lot of strong opinions on things like these, far too many for me to summarize them somehow.
