A fine praise of the car by the American Matthew Crawford, an original and a philosopher who is as wary of the moral lessons of the progressives as of the imperialism of the Gafa.
It is a photo published by the
New York Times
in January 2019 which did not catch the attention of the French media: a bicycle burnt by “yellow vests”.
A bicycle as a symbol of a way of life, that of metropolises, and of their inhabitants, “a
vast herd of arrogant moralists on bicycles or electric scooters and anti-carbon fundamentalists”
.
The bike like the anti-car.
The bicycle as the enemy of the people.
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Everyone remembers that the revolt of the “yellow vests” started with a protest against a new tax on gasoline and the reduction of the authorized speed on national and departmental roads.
At the same time, German motorists donned a yellow vest to denounce a proposed speed limit on motorways;
and a few years earlier, the revolt
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