>>1860964>I think people tend to idealize a car as a tool they can choose to do things with and not necessarily something they have to rely on to do basic tasks.Hard disagree.
In most developed countries, anywhere except downtowns proper, doing basic tasks without a motor vehicle ranges from suicidal to undignified and miserable.
I tend to think your position stems from some innate psychological tendency to subconsciously perceive our public environment as something undeliberate and unchanging, so we disregard all the implications of it.
It's a pretty inappropriate mindset considering our lived environment has been designed this way deliberately by people.
Just before I got my driver's license, I had this warm feeling that I'm finally going to be free, go where I please, do what I want.
I think most people felt something similar.
When I got my driver's license and started to do shit by car, I slowly realized that my endearment towards cars was akin to the Stockholm syndrome.
I felt imprisoned without a car and endangered on foot or bicycle, but back then I thought that's "just how things were".
No, that was deliberate and not just "the natural state of things".
This "red pill" makes driving a car miserable for me, an admission of defeat, especially when it's to do something trivial I could've easily done on a bike if the way there and back wasn't suicidal.
I think most people cope in the end by saying that they want it this way as to not face the possibility that their environment, designed by people with interests, made that decision for them and that, ergo, they had no choice to begin with.
