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Really Very Human

Highway To Hell

The line between America's automobile obsession and its descent into fascistic individualism is getting easier and easier to draw.

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Dan Sheehan
May 21, 2024
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America loves a car. Whether it’s the family taking a road trip down route 66, the blue-collar worker throwing lumber into his pickup, or the glamorous movie star letting her hair down in a convertible, the iconography of the American dream has always been inexorably linked to automobile ownership. For Americans, the car has offered the promise of a lif…

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