¶ Automobile
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Automobile:
“An automobile cannot go over the open fields. The highway is part of an automobile. You must realize that an automobile is really like a little runner on a monkey wrench. These two parts are again the synergetics of one another. And because the automobile company can’t afford to produce all the highways, all they do then is to produce a very beautiful car, put it in an automobile show, get the local banker to buy one, and it gets to be very showy. People get very excited at the idea that they don’t have to walk from here to there; they might be able to ride from here to there. And they have automobile races on a little track and it gets to be very exciting. And so finally there gets to be such a hunger of people to ride that the politician, who hasn’t even gone to school at all, finds the way to get elected is to build highways.”
¶ Citations
- Univ, of Chicago Address, pp.9-10, 5 May’72
