Cars are like desserts. Each one is awesome, but in the end all of them together will kill us. Whether they be powered by gas or electricity.

Thinking in fractals, the phrase “everything in moderation” does not apply only to individual people, but also to towns, corporations, and societies.

The society built around the train is infinitely more efficient than the society built around the car. (This is about infrastructure and urban planning, not trains or cars.)

Unregulated capitalism is adolescent. Just as teenagers must eventually grow up and make responsible plans in their life, societies must eventually make responsible choices about who they are and what they want.

Every choice, both instant and sustained, comes with sacrifices and consequences, both seen and unseen, positive and negative.

Currently, American Democracy, the American political system, is actively resisting growing up.