From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 15:45:44 MDT
>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:59:13 -0700
>From: "Spike" <spike66@comcast.net>
>Subject: RE: [MEDIA]: USA vs UK
>Regarding Americans' disrespect for authority, I have
>a theory on that. Long before we get lessons on how
>our nation was born out of rebellion against authority,
>we get a more fundamental lesson in the form of
>instruction on how to cross a road with a bicycle.
>We are instructed to dismount the bike and *walk*
>it across the street or intersection.
>I ask you: is this not absurd? Do motorcyclists
>push their bikes across the intersection? Not only
>is it absurd, it is downright dangerous, for two
>reasons. First, if one walks the bike across the
>street, one is in the road for more time than if
>one rides across.
Very true. Plus as you and I know (being bike owners), there ain't no one
who'll tell a biker where he can "push" his mount :)
>But secondly, and more importantly,
>if one does obey that silly rule, one appears to be
>a pussy. Word will get soon around, resulting in three
>or four burly third-graders catching the hapless prole
>on the playground and beating him beyond recognition,
>early and often.
>Clearly, any authority which would suggest such a
>thing is either stupid, malicious or both, not
>deserving of respect or obedience. Unless things
>have changed a great deal since my childhood in the
>60s, this bicycle thing is one of the very earliest
>and most important lessons learned by our children,
>resulting in their growing up to be solid self-reliant
>minarchists.
Yup, things have changed. It's all those small, shiny red/green wheeled
mini-crap push scooters now.
And yes, you're even more of a wuss if you walk one of those across the
intersection.
James...
>spike
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