the IMpersonal automoble

I can think of nothing more destrutive of my own personal happiness than the impersonal automobile... Unless it be: white bread/Bunny bread/Rainbow bread transmogrified into every sort of gummy pseudo-bread product, whether it be roll or bread or bagel, all basically taste- and texture-less. All a sad comment on the failure of north americans to enjoy life. Unless it be: SPY book: how many friends do you have? Unless it be: the personal computer--still too heavy to carry comfortably!!)-:*** Unless it be: mobile telephones with their absurd pricing schemes and the torturous greedy companies that control them. ( Should all be part of a public utility... )How many painful, unpleasant, fundamentally stressed hours must I WASTE because this country does not have public transit?****Driving a car is a pain in the ass. You've got to watch out for the other guy. Be constantly on the alert for roads that don't somehow match up. Turn left here and way, way, way the hell over in the distance, in some unfathomable space your road continues..... Park the god damn thing. Get squeezed in by enormous trucks that manage somehow to get closer to you than you ever thought was possible. Endure the noise of cars if you are not in one. Endure the noise of someone else's music when you are in a car and when not as well.... Waste time buying gas for the bloodything.... As opposed to........The many pleasant hours I spent people watching... (ah, but the women over there are more beautiful)... OR reading OR gazing out the window and day dreaming.... OR planning my day... Or reviewing my day... OR.... Or.... or....... or all those things not allowed to us here in this hellish place that makes war at the drop of a hat.... Yes, I believe it. What a difference it makes----if within living memory someone recalls the destruction that war can make, that it once did make in your very own city......In this, I believe Europeans are more civilized.... whatever their other faults..........-----....................................--------------------------------...........FOOTNOTE; FOOTNOTE....FOOTNOTE UNLESS IT BE A FOOTNOTE........ unless it be.......( continued).... unless it be the fact that fruit and vegetables in my nighborhood stores are NOT fresh... and the coffee is shit too......and the prices keep going up, and then there's the crummy and over-priced yogurt...oh so low quality...doesn't taste good....not pleasing to eat...so sad sad sad.......... UNLEsss it beeee the cheese, oh please how can they do that? what fraud it is to create such junk.........unless it be that there is a conspiracy to exclude certain topics of conversation such as politics.....such as the immorality of war.... But what can you expect of a land where new year's resolutions are always self-denying and anti-pleasure? Not a fun place to be, not at all... ... SIGH.......sad sigh.....low empty sigh.........))-: