After one hundred years or so, of being gullible recipients of false advertising and choiceless consumers of what is in Reality clearly a massive global case of vehicle-maker "cartelian" collusion, it is, in decade one of millennium three, opportune for People Power to "Modernise", in the Best sense of the word, this ruthless and banale industry to suit the buyer's needs-and-wants, rather than as it has been throughout the twentieth century - a ruthless profit-mill for manufacturers and all their down-stream middlemen of distributors and car-dealers, etcetera.
The "Modernisation" I'm in here suggesting, includes quite political aspects of many, I'm sure, vehicle-buyer's hidden ethical concerns. Concerns such as vehicular inefficiency, pollution and wasted materials (the latter-two being "same-same", but different), wasted materials left after having outlived their planned "use-by-date".
Tyres are a massive pollutant once they've done their 50,000 miles or so and are replaced. Then there's the rather inharmonious possibility that the "leftovers" from tyres as-in the bits of rubber being left on the bitumen and other driven-upon surfaces every time we drive - might well be a REAL BUMMER! for larger parts of the "Environment"!?
Forget "recycling"! It's been subsumed by the beomith.
Car bodies are designed not just to be as light-weight as possible (vital to minimising fuel consumption), but also to deteriorate in a short-as-makers-can-get-away-with time span.
This, so the owner must go back into the full-of-floss car market to purchase another one. Only to replace it in five years or so.
On the cheapest marginal land of all major cities are hundreds of hectares, filled to overflowing with unsold new and second-hand cars?
The individual manufacturers; General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volvo, Lada, VW, MG, Hyundi, Lexus, Eunos, Honda, Suzuki, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, etcetera and on, in general don't concern themselves with keeping buyers loyal to THEIR brand, because the demand is perpetual, and also is "fostered" by a multitude of other "lobby-groups" assailing until now powerless governments to provide infrastructure supporting this modem-of-mobility.
Having amassed so much wealth, the global vehicle-making corporate industrial body can easily afford to pay "thirty-pieces-of-silver" to innumerable sales agents and promotions-conglomerates to keep us-the-public constantly enthrawled with the latest distraction (which is as-often purchased for use as a tool or piece of equipment to accrue more wealth) distractions nevertheless from the hard, cold and deadly facts: cars and all their ancillaries; petroil-bitumen roads, psycho-techead bit-components for vehicle electronics and traffic-management systems, are killing, in no small proportion.........., the planet.
The 'distraction' being exaggeradvertised NEW?!! models with fantastical (fantEsticle) ego-thrilling body-shapes, headlight designs, interior 'appointments' et-cet-er-a, apparently appealing to those of us caught-up in the dumb-fuck spells of mass-advertised fashion, mixed of late with notions of cosmology, magic, etc.
FAAAARK!!
Yet, they're still only as fast as a 1968 Datsun 1000 when their stuck in the traffic. And slower than the smallest motorbike!
FAAAAAAARKKKK!!!
But they LOOK so WICKED dude!
Aren't things just a little-bit out of order here?
OK! So let's have the upside of vehicular development--------------
Ummm?------------------ Problem (or situation) is, it's all susceptible to ceaseless debate.
An upside I've allowed a place in my "argument cache" of mind for 20 years, is that R&D in motor-vehicular design brings us more efficient engines, safer vehicles, etc.
But adding ALL the Environmental costs (which is the main concern, relating to motorcars) of the full-chain of production: from mining metal ores and the raw products used to make plastics and 'fabrics' plastered throughout cars today; the environmental burden alone in the shipping and freighting to-and-on-from 'refineries', (one could almost derive a meaning of 'refineries' as being 'sophisticated', false, specious), the "product enhancement" refineries, the 'plant' needed to automatically refine and stamp-out the components of the vehicle; the parallel chain of production for all THAT plant, which is also being constantly superceded (Why? Because WE CAN!), these personal gigdets called motorcars, are not just massively inefficient to the individual and the Collective, but are deadly to Life on Earth IN THE EXTREME.
(I apologise for the CAPITALS as 'emphasis', but I don't trust the linebreak html this is typed in.)
Must I bring in the mass-promotions and too-powerful motorcar media, it's mental pollution on it's entranced readers (sorry guys!), and the amount of waste(d) paper of disgarded magazines? Guys, we're ALL captured by some aspect of the - same-same.
Such environmental concerns also contribute in major-ways to fucking-up the Souls of we who are forced to partake of this car-centric society, if only by forcing us to drape and dowse spells of denial over and through our minds and hearts, each time we jump in and drive, or are passenged, each time we "fill-'er-up", each time we disgard old tyres and the "old darling", with new ones.
NEW ONES! - more and more quite deliberately designed to last an expensively short period - so car-addicted clones have to take their often hard-earned beads-and-trinkets from under the bed and throw them recklessly, often with bitter-abandon, into the pukacious hands of the car-dealers.
And society slaggs heroin dealers as THE WORST!?
Hand on? Aren't things just a little-bit out of order here?
Pausing for a flash, lemme throw in a lovely little tangent here. Lemme say that a MAJOR delight, "buzz" if you like - Beauty of motorbikes, is that almost anyone can afford and applicate to customise their motorbike to their own needs and wants in means-of-transport. This of course depends on what you buy, a NEW! model or a tasty-bit-of-iron from an earlier decade or era.
But once more, I leave my "tangent" open to ceaseless debate.
However - I, don't, care.
Zo!? Aside from my "IF I WUZ GLOBAL DICTATOR...!" wish-list of making everyone ride motorbikes for ten years before being allowed to ride in a cage-er-car, as a driver OR pasenger, let's tackle the phenomenal motorcar problem with some simple and acheivable Authority, by introducing into as many national-international "Design Standards and Rules", rules which limit the root-curse of 'planned obscelesence', by making makers give guarantees of say, TEN years on vehicle componentry. Of course, the Duty of we extremeists, dissenters at-least, is to call for a lifetime free replacement and free labour warranty on all parts.
The "parts industry" makes something like ten times the profit on spares.
Sure, panel-beaters may well form a lobby group or a "Dent Fixer's Party" - "I fix Dents, AND I VOTE!" or such, and the auto-allied 'aftermarket' juggernaut is already on the phone to some fascist-chauffeur-cum-professional-provocateur, to "fix Max's dents!" permanent-like!
But over the years, I've mixed with heaps of panel-beaters, mechanics and tyre-fitters, and heaps if them muffle an inner despair at their need to deny these realities.
And as many of them would be ready to Celebrate with the Deepest-Greenies, if such planned-obscelesence nonsense was brought under some Balanced, Reasonable control.
Hello GW!
What'd'yer reckon if no-one went to work tomorrow, the day (Monday) before the November 2nd United States of America Presidential election, in concern for the politico-military future of our one, small, Beautiful Planet.
Nor Tuesday, nor Wednesday, nor Thursday and Friday, this week?
Land Rent, Arnie! John Kerry!
The Republocrats? The Demopublics!
Cou(p)-eee!
Big Stuff.
May The Perfect Existence Be Your Inspiration.
True Lore Outlaw, Walking thru this Multiverse, Warring against dumb
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