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In light of the last entry about America’s tremendously dangerous transportation infra-structure… \u00a0 I was interviewed by Anneli Sundquist last week. \u00a0 Ms. Sundquist is a free-lance journalist from Sweden and regularly travels the world. \u00a0 After the interview, she told me that she has been in dangerous places in many countries, but she had never feared for her life more than — when she drove the Interstate from Brunswick, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia. \u00a0 She said with packs of cars speeding along at an extremely “fast” clip, cars and trucks rapidly changing lanes (our standard highway driving fare), she felt in danger the whole drive north. \u00a0 Yet, I couldn’t help but think, we’ve come to accept this crazy, fast-paced driving mileau because, simply, we’ve been conditioned (in increments of 5 mph more at a time) over the past several decades (despite all the increased fatalities, maiming, and so on). \u00a0 We are so conditioned, in fact, that \u00a0seldom, if ever, \u00a0would ever question it — it would take an outsider. \u00a0 What’s more, when I asked Ms. Sundqvist what she thought of America, she said it’s like viewing “a big car crash.” \u00a0 That is, she said, even though the crash is a mangled jumble you know you shouldn’t slow down to look at, there’s something inside of you that’s “fascinated” with it. \u00a0 What Ms. Sundqvist construes as the mangled jumble, is: our, again, \u00a0high-speed driving patterns; the rapid fire rate that advertisements (tv, radio, billboards…) come at us to buy so many, and often absurd, things; the breakneck pace of business in general; fast food, drive-thru expresso… I couldn’t help but think, after my conversation with Ms. Sundqvist, that \u00a0European travel agents \u00a0could capitalize on this: \u00a0 “Fly to America to see the ‘Big Car Crash! \u00a0 And \u00a0we’re not talking NASCAR…”<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the last entry about America’s tremendously dangerous transportation infra-structure… \u00a0 I was interviewed by Anneli Sundquist last week. \u00a0 Ms. Sundquist is a free-lance journalist from Sweden and regularly travels the world. \u00a0 After the interview, she …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}