Did you mean to imply that the Old Guard writings about cycling truths and the rights of bicyclists to be treated as legitimate road users would somehow be useful to Badvocates today?
I suggest those truths are kryptonite to Badvocates and are shouted down, and proponents are cancelled, at every voicing. For the simple reason that Badvocates ultimately make money pushing the Infra Lie.
(Shall we label their doctrine, just as they label ours "VC," taring us with our own brush? What shall we label their portfolio of crap? How shall we teak "NACTO," or "Urban Bikeway Design?" Label it and cancel it ourselves in SocMed..... Table for later.)
Getting rich on government grants. We can't call it the free market because sucking on the public tit is neither market nor free. At best it's the cost of supporting America's bloated government bureaucracy, at worst it's imposing a nationalist transportation policy that's intended to make Americans dependent on government run travel modes, e.g. Russia, China. Centralist planning-- always promoted in the name of equity-- inevitably limits personal options and reduces freedom. And there's never been anyone so free as an American citizen riding their own bicycle.
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Did you mean to imply that the Old Guard writings about cycling truths and the rights of bicyclists to be treated as legitimate road users would somehow be useful to Badvocates today?
I suggest those truths are kryptonite to Badvocates and are shouted down, and proponents are cancelled, at every voicing. For the simple reason that Badvocates ultimately make money pushing the Infra Lie.
(Shall we label their doctrine, just as they label ours "VC," taring us with our own brush? What shall we label their portfolio of crap? How shall we teak "NACTO," or "Urban Bikeway Design?" Label it and cancel it ourselves in SocMed..... Table for later.)
Getting rich on government grants. We can't call it the free market because sucking on the public tit is neither market nor free. At best it's the cost of supporting America's bloated government bureaucracy, at worst it's imposing a nationalist transportation policy that's intended to make Americans dependent on government run travel modes, e.g. Russia, China. Centralist planning-- always promoted in the name of equity-- inevitably limits personal options and reduces freedom. And there's never been anyone so free as an American citizen riding their own bicycle.
From a life-long cyclists, ECI, LCI, and CS (and therefore unworthy of respect by the Badvocates):
IT's ALL TRUE.
Nice job sketching the timeline of valid content dissolution. RIP Truth!
But beyond the value of historic record, What are we to do with it?