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Excerpts from The Reactionary Pedestrian on this weeks Living On Earth
Abner Serd had a simple, if ambitious plan. Walk the Appalachian Trail with a friend. Well, that hike never happened. But Mr. Serd did set out on an alternate route along the nation's highways and byways. The detour turned him into, what he calls, a “reactionary pedestrian.” And his string of audio postcards traces the paving of America, as well as his own alienation and conversion to fanaticism. Or maybe he was always that way. You can draw your own conclusion ....
...Monday morning the 15th of February. Walking on little tiny seashells along the beach in Louisiana. It's kind of sad that people don't walk on the beach anymore. Last night, Valentine's evening, went down to the beach at just about sunset, watching all the Valentine's couples driving back and forth along the beach, driving in their four-wheel drive vehicles. Kind of made me feel like I'd lost, somehow....
...I hear a lot these days about racial profiling. Racial profiling. I don't know how many times I've been stopped and questioned by Officer Friendly, not because I was doing anything wrong, but only because I happened to be passing through town on foot. I wanna tell these guys, look, all the really successful criminals drive cars. I should think that's obvious. In fact, the better the car, the more successful the criminal. You should be stopping people in BMWs!
A man after my own heart. Although my ractionarianism is maybe not so profound, I often annoy Tomoe by not moving out of the way for cars coming up behind me as we walk down the small streets (which I consider walking streets) in Tokyo. I'm not saying the car can't drive there, but I am saying that I am not going to be the one giving up my rights to walk at a reasonable pace without having to crowd onto the shoulder of the road just for some jerk in a car. Tokyo is filled with huge, busy car roads. There is absolutely no reason to be driving on a side street. I have long felt that all non-comercial vehicles should be outlawed within the city limits except for maybe highways passing through. (delivery trucks, busses, and cars for handicapped or elderly are OK)
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