Source of the World's Problems

[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.

[Aktungbby]

Yer 2700(ish) years too late in Legio veritas!

[Platapus]

Concrete production is a big producer of CO2 also

[Oubaas]

The Romans! They did this to us with their road building!

And yes, we could greatly reduce concrete production.

We need a dirt road world.

[mapuc]

Makes one wonder how it would be like driving on one of these roads I'm thinking on the suspension they must be working real hard on these bumping Roman road.

Imagine driving 55/75 MPH on these roads

Markus

[August]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Makes one wonder how it would be like driving on one of these roads I'm thinking on the suspension they must be working real hard on these bumping Roman road.

Imagine driving 55/75 MPH on these roads

Markus

His whole point is to stick you in one place so you can't go anywhere. He thinks that will make everyone get along better somehow. To the contrary I think it would make it far easier to exert territorial control with today's technology.

After all there are aircraft and helicopters now that don't need roads and we now have the ability to observe every square inch of ground live from orbit. All that removing paved roads would do is make it more difficult for the little guy to get around and therefore make him easier to control. It's not going to hinder the big guy nearly as much.

[Skybird]

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.

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.

[JU_88]

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.

Tough one, but id say humans might be the source of most of them.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Tough one, but id say humans might be the source of most of them.

....or so Sigmund Freud thought when concieved of his theory of the "id, the ego, and the superego"...which might be the psychology the Roman inaugurated in their roadbuilding system...followed by Hitler's autobahn system...and an impressed Ike Eisenhower's implementation/copy of the German system to create the 'Merikan freeway system as it exists today?!! <...and I've driven every one of then in my 1976-'79 3-year sleeper-team trukkin' daze!

[mapuc]

FYI
The Deutsche Autobahn was not invented for ordinary people could get faster from a to b.

It was invented for the mechanized military so they could get faster from one section to an another fast.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by mapuc

FYI
The Deutsche Autobahn was not invented for ordinary people could get faster from a to b.

It was invented for the mechanized military so they could get faster from one section to an another fast.

Markus

Heil Hitler!

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Tough one, but id say humans might be the source of most of them.

... then squirrels

[JU_88]

bloody squirrels.

[Eichhörnchen]

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by mapuc

FYI
The Deutsche Autobahn was not invented for ordinary people could get faster from a to b.

It was invented for the mechanized military so they could get faster from one section to an another fast.

Markus

Same as with our Interstate system.


Or as it was officially called, the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways