@katja That ideology description you wrote there, oh my gosh.
I can´t stress how much that is how it felt when moving here. Lordship over one's (stolen) land seems to be something above every other right, the most god-given right of all. And that truly, truly translates to automobiles. Really feels like in so many cases here, cars are holy fortresses to shield a person and their family from the outside world. It's like a portable Plato cave or something and it's maddening.
Are you familiar with the concept ofEveryone's right? (im familiar with the Finnish version, jokaisenoikeus). The idea that a person can freely roam on the land, literally walk into someone's farmland and even eat from the fruit trees along the way, as long as they dont disrupt the integrity of the farmland or, of course, the more private areas like the house itself.
That is a notion that fascinates me and that makes me hope/think about a better world. When I'm visiting the neighbouring country here, I am _legitimately_ worried that simply parking my car in a suburban street and maybe waiting under a tree for someone to arrive might get me on the sights of a gun-toting maniac who _will_ feel truly entitled to point a gun at a human being for the crime of existing within their holy space.
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Sorry for the massive digression, it just feels good to get this out of my chest a bit XD I left my home country to escape some problems that I dont think could be solved in my lifetime (related to urban violence etc) and although that is much, MUCH better here, i ended up finding out that so many people in this land have a very distorted idea of what is a society.
The silver lining is that, despite _those_ people, so many other people have come here to just try and have a better life, and trying to see the good for the bad has been a great exercise in humility and, again, hope.
Thanks Katja :dragn_mlem: