Every 1 in 1,000 libertarians seems to realize bicycles are good even according to their principles and then you get a post like this.
If you don’t know Hickman, I think he’d best be described as a sort of primitivist-nostalgic liberterian for settler times in the USA. To fulfill his dreams he moved out into the boonies of upstate new york and ever so often hates how it’s full of uncultured swine, by his definition.
. . . and that’s why it’s essential to remove the State’s requirements for driver’s licensure, automobile registration, emissions checks, . . . .
is it
i’m ventriloquizing what would be the obvious, marginally more clever, libertarian line of thinking.
Let him cookHe is confused but he has the spirit.
This is an unintended side effect of biking as main mode of transport, along with exercise
My main reason for biking has been financial solvency as a person surviving through wage slavery
And also not having anyone to teach me to drive through the formative high school and college years
He took the canoe pill
I wonder if he is John Forester pilled.
This dude is like Forrester for MTBs if anything. Actual Forrester was way too urbanism-headed to think of “bicycle to cross wilderness border” as a use case
I love myself a good weirdo
he does suck, like, a lot. I know the principled libertarian thing gives him a few sympathy points but my god is this guy a pathos laden idiot
The less I learn about him, the better.
One could even cross international borders doing this
International borders, places famous for not checking your identification
I mean I’ll hand it to him on that one that if you do the non-public transport stuff like roughing it through the wild that’s probably really doable
The pedestrian can truly become a “ghost” in a way that is 100% not possible for motorists to imitate.
New tagline
The dialectic of people power against the centralizing forces of control.
Hey, whatever helps people seek out alternatives to driving. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, I suppose.
