So, we’ve seen this comic, right? I wanted to share it and not be a total pill, but I have some thoughts:
The spacing of the text/comic bubbles first caught my eye here. I’m not totally sure that it was totally intentional, but it rings very true to my experience here that people with culturally driven opinions tend to be very quick to judge and double down, and people whose worldview is consciously crafted and changes relatively frequently based upon new evidence tend to be much less quick to judge. A small factoid.
I know it’s easy to ring the Netherlands bell as often as possible when we talk about the streets we want as an advanced society. Streets that put the person’s safety, dignity, and equity first over the need to drive a car as fast as possible and store it as free as possible. It’s a correct take, but it’s not as simple as wanting this to be true—car culture is systematic, and the same contextually-driven problems that compelled the Dutch government into a systemic change …
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