Originally Posted by
tandempower
You are using the term, dogma, in a way that has nothing to do with its actual meaning. If anything, it is the driving culture that has become dogmatic, insofar as people drive for no other reason than the ingrained idea that it's "just what you do"...
Personal computing is a totally different type of technology with totally different effects and dependencies....
The automobile has long been seen as a symbol of personal freedom and like the computer, a symbol of modernity; and, like other aspects of modernity, the automobile also has become the subject of the dogmatic prophecy from witchdoctors on the Left (typified by the LCF
movement) who point to soccer moms as killing polar bears because of the CO2 that their SUVs emit.