who was it who said that the level of a civilization can be judged on the basis of how it treats its automobiles? [*]
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > In a world where millions of people are starving, homeless, unemployed > or otherwise miserable, hundreds of millions of animals are poisoned, > force-fed and tortured to death in factory-farms, this guy is grieving > over separation from his beloved ... automobile!! > > File this one under false consciousness? > > http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/06/ny-neighbors-turn-out-to-mark-passing-of-30-year-old-honda-civic/ > ------------------------------snip > Few cars get the eulogy they deserve after a life of serving us. > > But one 1982 Honda Civic was put to rest last week in Inwood, NY, and > got a junkyard sendoff worthy of a lifelong friend. > > [...] > > As the Civic was towed off, Ettling must have thought about all of the > good times Bluey had delivered. When asked about getting a new car, > Ettling thought it over. "I'm not getting a new car," Ettling told the > New York Daily News. "I need time to heal." -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. [*] Actually, it was Charles Fourier who in 1841 said that "The degree of emancipation of women is the natural measure of general emancipation." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
