…On A Post-Oil Future

People think that the post-apocalyptic world will be all rough and tough, hard living and scrabbling for survival, but that’s not true at all. It’ll be a glorious paradise! People will look back at today and talk about how crazy we were. They’ll ask why people lived in cities where on every block, they had to scamper across a street and take their lives in their hands. They’ll wonder why we lived in cities made for cars, on streets made for cars with little access corridors on the side for peds, in houses with big central front doors for cars and little side doors for people. They’ll laugh at pictures of people eating in outdoor restaurants with hideous views and smells of streets and parking lots. They’ll ponder the stupidity of neighborhoods full of parked cars that start blaring their sirens in the middle of the night for no reason. They’ll wonder why one could murder anyone with a car and get away with it. They’ll say, “no wonder civilization collapsed, everyone shut themselves up in big coffins when they wanted to go anywhere, nobody talked to each other – they could only say one thing, and that was HONK! HONK! FINGER!”