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"Makes the interesting point that the widespread adoption of the car post-WWII is not the only reason why Aussie cities are so car dependent. Another reason is that the State and Federal governments' post-WWII home building programmes bought large tracts of land where they were cheapest, i.e., on the outskirts of established population centres. Land and housing economics also caused our widespread car dependency." — Sep 06, 2026 10:40PM
"Makes the interesting point that the widespread adoption of the car post-WWII is not the only reason why Aussie cities are so car dependent. Another reason is that the State and Federal governments' post-WWII home building programmes bought large tracts of land where they were cheapest, i.e., on the outskirts of established population centres. Land and housing economics also caused our widespread car dependency." — Sep 06, 2026 10:40PM
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“Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?”
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“as a young man I thought the ideal philosophical argument was one with the following property: someone who understood its premises and did not accept its conclusion would die.”
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“If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.”
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