I think this is substantially true. Urbanists have no idea how much fun and freeing driving can be in rural areas. I used to love driving from Lake City out to the river, for instance.

About freedom, a larger point: both the left and right right are substantially anti-freedom, in their own ways. The left’s version of this wish to control is to attempt to take away things like cars, the ability to live where one pleases, the modern conveniences of life and other related degrowther baloney. They just dress it up in “good” reasons like “preventing climate change” and “saving the environment.” Whether any of their nonsense would do any of that is irrelevant. It just has to seem plausible enough to grant them control over you.

Both sides wish for this dominance, and both sides ram it in however they can.

I didn’t realize until entirely too late in life that the common women’s plaint, “Every man wants to sleep with me! They always bother me!” wasn’t a real thing, but a humblebrag.

It’s a socially-acceptable way of saying, “I’m very hot and desirable. Look at how gorgeous I am!”

Of course, women do get bothered in public by men. That certainly happens sometimes. But the reality is that the majority of women are just average and most men have better things to do than even think about that woman (or any woman) for a single second.

It’s a manufactured reality to praise one’s self while appearing to be beset by problems. Thus, it’s quite clever in its way.