{"id":372941,"date":"2018-08-11T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T07:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-do-they-all-look-the-same\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T07:54:02","slug":"why-do-they-all-look-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-do-they-all-look-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do They All Look the Same?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Government homogenizes everything it touches. It makes things uniform, drains the color, randomness and difference out of life.<\/p>\n<p>Government is the reason why cars increasingly look . . . homogenized. The basic shape is becoming uniform \u2013 the\u00a0inevitable end result of having to comply with government edicts specifying that a car must successfully withstand being hit from the side, behind and at various angles; this has imposed a design template on all cars, regardless of brand or model. It is why all brands and models increasingly look the same except for increasingly bizarre grille and headlight shapes \u2013 which are a kind of desperate last salvo of expression still possible only because the government hasn\u2019t yet got around to decreeing how grilles and headlights should be shaped.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t3_ug-IGBJY\" width=\"600\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which will probably happen when it occurs to a government bureaucrat that certain grille shapes threaten to poke pedestrians \u2013 and we can\u2019t have\u00a0<em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The same homogeneity is found inside new cars \u2013 in all cars made since the late \u201890s, when the government decreed that all cars must have air bags stuffed into their steering wheels. It is why all steering wheels now look the same. Before the government decreed that all new cars must have air bags, steering wheel designs varied \u2013 often wildly. They were the centerpiece of interior design and even defined the car.<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right last-count\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-State-Anarcho-Capitalist-Llewellyn-Rockwell\/dp\/0990463109?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0990463109\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/518lPjolIHL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-State-Anarcho-Capitalist-Llewellyn-Rockwell\/dp\/0990463109?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0990463109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Against the State: An &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Llewellyn H. 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Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0990463109&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, they are just steering wheels.<\/p>\n<p>The same blob in the center \u2013 where the air bag is. The different shapes of the past are no longer feasible and so there is\u00a0one\u00a0shape \u2013 generic, homogenous. With a different\u00a0badge\u00a0in the center.<\/p>\n<p>It is no wonder that most&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/eric-peters\/why-do-they-all-look-the-same\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government homogenizes everything it touches. It makes things uniform, drains the color, randomness and difference out of life. Government is the reason why cars increasingly look . . . homogenized. The basic shape is becoming uniform \u2013 the\u00a0inevitable end result of having to comply with government edicts specifying that a car must successfully withstand being [&hellip;]<\/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-372941","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\/372941","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=372941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}