Carfree, Carefree

There is increasing evidence pointing to a significant relationship between people who have low levels of satisfaction and their tendency to place a high personal emphasis on material acquisition and wealth. The car is among the most conspicous of these acquisitions. But far from delivering freedom, the car has become our oppressor. Even when we own it. 

Carless is Careless

The truth is that owning a car means never being truly free: you are a slave to the finance company that loaned you the money to buy it. You are enslaved by the laws that regulate your progress. You are a slave to the need to park it.

Even when you have found a space for it, you are a slave to the worry of what's happening to it - if it's in a town, is some low life breaking into it? When you go for a walk and park your car in a lonely car park, is some gang of hoodies plundering the contents as soon as you set off along the footpath. And when you get to the pub, can you have a drink? Or are you the "designated driver"?  Tough luck.

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind

Without a car you are less interesting to the surveillance state, which is ever more likely to be tracking your movements; you are financially freer because you are less likely to be in debt; you are more free from worry; you own your own time and can choose what to do with it.

When you are travelling, and someone else is driving - whether it's a  train or a bus or a taxi - you can do other things: like reading, listening to music, or just looking out of the window. You can be free from the mind-numbing tedium of the tarmac moving in front of you and the anticipation of the next traffic jam. 

Think, Don't Drive

Give up your car. Give up the worry.

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