{"id":372028,"date":"2018-08-04T02:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-controllers-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-04T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:46:05","slug":"the-controllers-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-controllers-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Controllers\u2026 – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why did people fall in love with cars?<\/p>\n

I mean, why did they\u00a0used<\/em>\u00a0to fall in love with cars?<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t because of speed or sex appeal \u2013 though those things certainly\u00a0helped<\/em>. It was because cars were freedom incarnate. As a teenager, you counted the days to your sixteenth birthday because on that day, you were let out. Free to drive anywhere your wheels could take you. No longer controlled or supervised or monitored. On your own and as you please.<\/p>\n

This freedom is under attack\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 has been for a long time, including via skirmishes that have made the process of acquiring a driver\u2019s license torturous and\u00a0<\/span>endless, insofar as teens are concerned. They are effectively debarred from driving in any meaningful sense until they are practically no longer teens, via prohibitions levied against their driving with friends who are also teens or at night, without the supervision of an adult and via brutal \u201czero tolerance\u201d polices, which criminalize the tracest amounts of alcohol or \u201cdrugs\u201d (the arbitrarily illegal ones) in their systems.<\/p>\n


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\nMillion Dollar Classic…<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nMartin Derrick, Simon …<\/span>
\nBest Price: <\/span>$5.11<\/span><\/span>
\nBuy New <\/span>$4.89<\/span><\/span>
\n(as of 06:40 EDT – Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Which delays their becoming adults and also stifles their\u00a0desire<\/em>\u00a0to become adults. Which is probably why the current generation of teens shows the least interest in cars and driving of any generation since the dawn of the automobile age more than 100 years ago.<\/p>\n

But now the\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0battle is about to commence.<\/p>\n

The one that will determine whether\u00a0adults<\/em>\u00a0are to be debarred from driving in any meaningful sense \u2013 via the force-feeding of automated (as distinct from \u201cautonomous\u201d) cars.<\/p>\n

Which\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0be controlled \u2013 just not by you. Hence the farthest thing conceivable from…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Why did people fall in love with cars? I mean, why did they\u00a0used\u00a0to fall in love with cars? It wasn\u2019t because of speed or sex appeal \u2013 though those things certainly\u00a0helped. It was because cars were freedom incarnate. As a teenager, you counted the days to your sixteenth birthday because on that day, you were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}