@mimsical A different kind of inflation?

Cars have scaled up with America's self-image, and the need to display it, as well as the mutual mistrust it spawns.

America is not a land of sharing and harmony, but of opportunity, driven by vicious competition; of conflict and waste; of winners and losers; of injury, death, and despair. The cost is borne by the victims of past conflicts, and their heirs.

Is there a way to have one without the other? America as it is would have to die.