I moved to a modern city in Europe. The main train station averages 300,000 people per day. Just that one station!
My old city in the US had a top rated bus network for a mid sized city. It handles a total of 800k rides per month. So, my new city does in one station almost a whole months worth of transit as my old city handles in 48 hours.
The scale of how real infrastructure works is beyond the ken of most American’s experience. They just don’t know they’re living in a terrible system.
Americans are relentlessly propagandized about how great we have it, and I guess our best option is to believe it, because the alternative is to cry over just how deeply shitty so much of the country actually is.
It truly helps the rich when the average adult reading level hovers around 5th grade and we’ll over 60% of Americans have never had to learn about logic, ethics, critical thinking, or how rights are earned by a strong citizenship.
When the public is just ignorant of how to do basic thinking, what the history of liberty is, or how rights are earned & kept by the People by taking collective action against the rich you get a crumbling society sliding back into serfdom.
I moved to a modern city in Europe. The main train station averages 300,000 people per day. Just that one station!
My old city in the US had a top rated bus network for a mid sized city. It handles a total of 800k rides per month. So, my new city does in one station almost a whole months worth of transit as my old city handles in 48 hours.
The scale of how real infrastructure works is beyond the ken of most American’s experience. They just don’t know they’re living in a terrible system.
Americans are relentlessly propagandized about how great we have it, and I guess our best option is to believe it, because the alternative is to cry over just how deeply shitty so much of the country actually is.
It truly helps the rich when the average adult reading level hovers around 5th grade and we’ll over 60% of Americans have never had to learn about logic, ethics, critical thinking, or how rights are earned by a strong citizenship.
When the public is just ignorant of how to do basic thinking, what the history of liberty is, or how rights are earned & kept by the People by taking collective action against the rich you get a crumbling society sliding back into serfdom.
And when they’re told, they throw a tantrum and invent reasons why it’s bad