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Originally Posted by Oubaas
I've been contemplating the source of all the world's problems, and I've come up with the answer.
Paving.
Both bituminous and concrete. If we tore up all of the paving, the world would quickly improve. Get rid of paved streets, roads, and runways.
Everything would become far more local. It would be much more difficult to control vast swaths of the world and screw everything up in an unending frenzy of greed and avarice.
Yep. That's it. All paved surfaces must go. I like dirt roads better anyway. And local dirt track racing is much better than corporate sponsored big league racing. Get rid of corporate sponsorship and paved tracks.
Formula One should be a dirt track event. Remove the paving from all the tracks and make the biggest sponsor Bob's Muffler and Exhaust Service. Then you'd have something.
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Indeed roads and streets are linked to the state wanting to project its supprerssive power onto the people. Namely taxing them. You find the idea in many libertarian theoreticists' books. In order to collect taxes from your subjects, your tax collectors must be able to reach them. Well - its a simplificaiton, but you get the idea.
Many of the grand, long alleys you find in European metropole - were build so that troops from the border of the metropole could quickly move in and reahc the city centre and goivenrment district and palaces ion case of public uprises and revolts.
A famous example you find in Berlin, it reaches from the Western border of the city right into the former Wetsern centre and leads onto the Kurfürstendamm thatb then contues the track by another couple of kilometers. This alley is several kilometer long, wide, and mostly very straight. Its purposes you even find in its streetname: "Heerstrasse" (army road). The Heerstrasse alone is over 10 km long, and has five lanes. In the medieval it was a small overland road, the village Berlin then was grew alongside of it.
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The basic problem is much more profound,and I said it many times before. WE ARE TOO MANY. 8.x billion, that is in my opinion seven billion too much.