Video: Brits Resisting 15-Minute Cities Tyranny
Recently, in a discussion with a fellow Substacker, I lamented that I did not expect people in the UK to be able to put up much resistance to 15-minute cities. I am pleased to report that, as the videos below suggest, I was overly pessimistic.
The first video mostly focuses on a man describing the practical problems associated with the traffic barricades in these LTNs (low-traffic neighborhoods). Everything he says is legitimate. However, even if those problems did not exist, these LTNs still would be fundamentally rights-violative phenomena.
Movement and travel are natural human rights. We have allowed an entity with a monopoly of violence (government) to own and control our roads, and that was probably a mistake. But so long as government roads were designed to facilitate human movement, it was a tolerable mistake. Now, they are redesigning the roads to restrict movement. To trap human beings in particular locations.
To concentrate them in particular locations.
That is a human-rights violation, plain and simple. It cannot be allowed. Full stop.
The second video is more analytical for the first seven minutes, and then gets to the red meat in the last three. But the whole thing is worth a watch.
“Britons never, never, never will be slaves.”
May it be so.