David Nebenzahl wrote:
> Jack May spake thus:
>
>> "Bolwerk" wrote in message
>> news:uUpvh.1354$Jz5.545@newsfe11.lga...
>>
>>> Jack May wrote:
>>>
>>>> "SMS" wrote in message
>>>> news:45b9a631$0$68986$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>>>>
>>>>> Calif Bill wrote:
>>
>>> They already did that. That's how we ended up with so many highways
>>> in the first place.
>>
>> The highways are an inherent result of technology evolution, society
>> needs, and normal progress. Trying to hold on to past with obsolete
>> technology always fails in a free society.
>
> So, Jack, you're saying that our highway system just sort of, naturally,
> evolved? Is that right?
>
> And here I always thought it (specifically, the interstate highway
> system) came about because *people planned it*. And not just people, but
> big, powerful, famous, influential people, like Dwight D. Eisenhower.
> Silly me! They're just an "inherent result" of evolution. Technology
> evolved, and then one day, *Poof!* there were highways.
>
> So was it some sort of intelligent design that evolved the highway system?
You forgot to mention that everyone who takes a train is a pea-brained
laggard with a welfare check. Upstanding white folk such as yourself
should never stoop to such lows! |
