His (or Hers?):
That's a Lotus Esprit V8 if you're curious. Anyways, it was a weird moment for me for some reason. As I'm thinking about it now, I believe the reason is it crystalizes for me everything that's been wrong for the past eight years. The car is big, fast, fancy, expensive, and runs through gas like it's water. The bike is efficient, useful, not very flashy, and way more healthy for a person than driving a fast car. The bike is sorta like the economy we should have, one built on solid fundamentals (that bike ran full force into a van with me on it, and the only thing that broke was the front reflector) that actually make your life better in tangible and intangible ways. The car is nice, it'll get you looks and all that, but is it really all that good for you in the long run? Our whole country over the previous eight years was run by people who thought like the car, playing the politics game for easy scores while neglecting things that are actually good for us (like a sane defense policy that isn't based on irrational fears of gangs with funny-sounding names in far-away places).
When I was little I always wanted to drive a fast car. I'm glad I grew out of that phase.
