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I used to live next to this park with a lake that's critical bird habitat. Every morning this 84 year-old lady would patrol that lake removing fishing lines/hooks. Genuine give-her-a-plaque shit. One day I was working next to the lake and she stopped to talk. It turned out she doesn't believe in climate change and hates bike lanes because a single biker can cause a miles-long traffic jam. Something about the casualness of her brainworms stuck with me like few other reactionaries have. Even people who do actual good things for their community in some atomistic way are completely hostile to that thing in their politics. The burger reich destroys fundamentally good people.
Carbrain is pretty unpolitical in the sense that for many people it is the axiom and then you just work backwards from there, according to your politics, to justify it.
Conservatives will harp on about not having to sit next so smelly strangers on public transpoirt, liberals will harp on about how if car bad how come so many car????. Apart from about 100 guys worldwide the libertarians will harp on about freedom to kill other people and the leftists mostly get there on grounds of rent prices, meaning everybody who doesn't need a car for transportation is the bourgeoisie and needs to be shot to ensure more roadspace for the proletarian individual automobile
The only somewhat effective way of countering carbrain is by travelling to different countries, and experiencing decent public transit for the first time. Still, there are people who do see it and are stuck at the idea that it just can't be implemented in their own country.
I almost lost my mind once when someone was telling me that a train is less scalable than a car. Like dude, do you think paved roads just spontaneously burst out of the ground?
Literally had a conversation with a guy who assumed that all roads were just paved over old 'naturally made' wagon trails, and I had to explain to him that for most American parceling, the roads usually came first, then the government parceled the lands, which is why areas without roads are usually unparceled, and that most American cities were created by proximity to either trains, harbors or highways. It genuinely escapes people that you don't build infrastructure around development, you develop around infrastructure.
You can find people in europe living 5km away from a city center who consider themselves to be living in the remote monoglian steppe because there's a 300m gap between the buildings of the city and their town
Carbrain doesn't operate on rationality as such, it doesn't usually boil down to just not having experienced a different approach to it
I agree, that's why I said it's only somewhat effective
The point I was trying to get at here isn't that people don't think it can be done in their country, or area, but rather that it's much more invidualist - it can't be done to them