Unfortunately, we’ve chosen wrong. The original version of this poster (HT Aza Raskin) was ruined by Comic Sans and a weakened message. The original included a third photo of bicyclists, which diluted the impact of comparing only two things. (Comparing car to bicycle would also be strong.) The original also failed to include a number for the […]
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From my current reading: …community cannot form in the absence of communal space, without places for people to get together to talk. Just as it is difficult to imagine the concept of family independent of the home, it is near-impossible to imagine community independent of the town square or the local pub. Christopher Lasch has observed […]
There is a crosswalk that traverses a relatively major local street between my home and my school. It has no lights to regulate it, so there is always this moment of decision: will I risk life and limb by simply stepping out, putting the cars going by under the imperative to stop, or will I […]
I’m reading C.S. Lewis’ autobiography “Surprised by Joy” right now, and it has a wonderful quote on the problems with cars: I number it among my blessings that my father had no car, while yet most of my friends had, and sometimes took me for a drive. This meant that all these distant objects could be […]
