Cars Are No Good

It is very difficult for me to begin to address the concept of Utopia in the first place. When I think about it, I just wind up in a never ending argument going back and forth about ways to approach the "problem" of improving the world. One side of me says that to make the world a better place, we have to consider for what purpose we are making the world a better place. If it is to give all humans better lives, than we have to think about whether we equally weigh all humans' opinions about what gives them better lives, whether anybody is wrong about what is a good life, and find ways to address the differences in the ways people want to live.

It all just really comes down to a philosophical discussion on the meaning of life, which has remained unresolved for a very long time. So when I get the question, "What is one thing that would make the world a better place?", I think to myself that I want everyone to live life the way they want so that they fulfill what they want to do with their life. And then I think that basically our world is already our attempt at Utopia and that it is perfect within all of it's "imperfections"- or maybe disagreements would be a better word.

So obviously everybody views it differently, which just seems to make the whole concept contradictory. But I guess to address it, I will assume that people misunderstand what will allow them to lead a better life, and that I can point them in the right direction.

My idea for a better world is to abandon vehicles of any kind. I believe that humans, similarly to any other animals, are meant to move without the assistance of a metal box on wheels.

For the record, I would like to say that I enjoy looking at and driving cool cars. I go through stretches in which I get really set on buying something like a Trans Am, but for the benefit of everyone I think it would be best if we did without them.

Back to cars being bad. The only purpose I see that they serve is for more things that make the world worse off. It all just comes down to cars facilitating our economy, which is based on us buying things that we don't actually need, which is done with MONEY, which many agree the world would be a better place without!

So now that we see the only things cars are used for are bad things, we can look at unintended consequences of their use.  Many people die from zooming around on our paved roads in metal boxes. Although I know it could be argued that death is not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, I am assuming that while we are here we want to remain alive with healthy bodies. The other major consequence is people being very unhealthy from not having to move around the way we are meant to. I guess maybe being unhealthy doesn't seem like that terrible of a thing, but when I think about it, our bodies should be the one thing we want to protect above all else, so being unhealthy is basically the worst thing imaginable.

There are people who don't exercise, eat unhealthy, and drive around a lot, but are still skinny.  I just wanted to clarify that being skinny is not equivalent to health.

I basically see the purpose of life as enjoying my time while i'm alive. The only things I really want out of life are to be able to eat, maintain a comfortable body temperature, and be around the people that I enjoy. I have known nearly all of my good friends for over 10 years. I'm sure that is very different from people who go to college and have new friends in three weeks. I don't consider myself close to someone until I have known them for a considerable amount of time. This is why I find it ridiculous that people would want cars and planes to travel and spend time with their "friends" who live in places like Italy, Mongolia, and Ghana.

I do not think that cars improve our lives at all.