July 2006

Inconvenient

by James McNally on July 3, 2006

in Documentaries

Brooke and I went to see An Inconvenient Truth tonight, which was fant­astic. The hor­rible thing was sit­ting through three car com­mer­cials before the screening. I’ve been starting to count the number of com­mer­cials that are for cars and I’d say, according to my unscientific guess, that one out of every three com­mer­cials I see these days are for auto­mo­biles or things that sup­port the auto­mobile industry. We are truly addicted to these things. I don’t mean to sound high and mighty. Though we don’t own a car, we bor­rowed my dad’s gas-guzzling SUV to drive up to see Brooke’s par­ents this weekend. But the car cul­ture is so per­vasive, we don’t even notice it any­more, and I think that’s dangerous.

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