Anarchy in the Saddle

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Raoul Vaneigem,  The Revolution of Everyday Life

Wherever I cycle (indeed, wherever I am) I try to keep as much distance between myself and cars as is humanly possible. It's not just for the obvious dangers that cars convey, but also for the monstrous corporations that they represent, corporations hell-bent on polluting and raping the planet for the sake of speed, greed, and progress. The automobile (and the internal combustible engine) is the great malevolent sorcerer that bewitches us at every turn and forces us to outsource our own locomotive force, and our own automobility, to that of a machine. 

Rule # 1: Never trust anything that usurps your own hyper-organic energy, for in the end, ineluctably, it will bleed you dry.

In his article Capitalism Getting You Down? Then Ride Your Fucking Bike, Hart Noekers writes:

The automobile is the greatest weapon of class war the 1% ever devised. Petroleum is killing our planet and car culture is killing our souls. This capitalist circle of death has imprisoned us, and it's time to liberate ourselves. In an age when the automobile is literally destroying our way of life, simply riding your bicycle becomes a revolutionary act...

 

 

Only when we cease the indulgence of being transported will we awake from the torpid slumber that has thus, via the machines that pitifully plagiarise our own vitality, numbed us into a living state of death.

Anarchy begins with your own energy - 

Vive la revolution!