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"Any society where a natural man, the pedestrian, becomes the intruder, and unnatural man encased in a steel shell becomes his molester, is a science fiction nightmare." Ray Bradbury, 1963 (archive.org)
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(Start the video at 11 minutes, 50 seconds in; that's the part I'm quoting.)

I follow this bot on Mastodon, @retrostrange@mastodon.social. It'll post what's playing on https://retrostrange.tv/, which is a stream of public-domain videos from a few decades ago.

One that just came up was a short film about science fiction writer Ray Bradbury from 1963. I just happened to click on it right as he was saying:

Our automobiles slaughter forty thousand people a year, maim a hundred thousand more, and bring out the worst in man. Any society where a natural man, the pedestrian, becomes the intruder, and unnatural man encased in a steel shell becomes his molester, is a science fiction nightmare.

It was really interesting to hear this sentiment expressed in America in 1963, a decade in which I always imagined car ownership to be seen as a modern ideal and a cultural mainstay. Was surprised to hear him say that in a black and white video from that era.

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[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

That story is so cursed.