William S. Lear wrote: >Perhaps the swerve of the American consumer to steering >hefty SUVs, from the dangerous (hence liberating) "limit experiences" >generated by piloting smaller caves about town, is a signal of our >(ever) increasing domestication, a further turn from the wild side of >unions, feminism, sit-ins, solidarity, and other more radical forms of >social protest? "a man who lives in a large city and owns a Land Rover does not simply lead a no-nonsense, 'down-to-earh' life; rather, he owns such a car in order to *signal* that he leads his life under the sign of a no-nonsense, 'down-to-earth' attitude...." - Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies, p. 4
