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The Cenecale oft the Car
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I've been on a road trip recently fromIllinois to New Hampshire. 18 hours of road there, 18 hours back. All without the car radio off. Nothing from the phone. Just me and the wide open road, and some road noise.
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For the past few days I've also been driving a tanker truck to keep my dad loaded as he applies fertilizer to our fields.
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It is fair to say that the car atomizes - in a bad way - us when considering its downstream effects on society: making us get further fromeachother, incentivizing us to know our neighbors less, making the world for children smaller and accessible only on the terms of drivers, on and on... but the car, in itself, can be a place of positive isolation.
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Christ went out into the desert. Christ admonishes us to go into our room and shut the door. The car is not a perfect place of this (don't close your eyes, stay alert, someone might kill you at any moment), but once one has mastered the skill of driving, it certainly ties up certain fidgety parts of the brain and leaves others free to dine with our Lord. |