We aren’t the majority. We don’t have teeming throngs fillings squares and city centres. We don’t have placards and signs and hashtags devoted to our cause. Our ideals haven’t spread through the public’s conscious like a virulent pathogen. Anderson Cooper isn’t reporting live from the Category 5 Hurricane that’s ravaging our cause.
Our cause doesn’t even have a name. We just have a belief. That’s it.
We believe in cars.
We believe that cars offer us what nothing else can: Emancipation From Fixed Location.
Think about that for a moment. Our ancestors were stuck in the mud where they were born. Their ability to travel was limited by the distance their legs could take them in a day. Buses, trains, horses, bicycles and bipedal motion could only get them so far. But what if they wanted to go beyond that, to explore, to travel, to enrich their lives? They could read books and not a whole lot more.
But we have a gift that our ancestors did not. We have cars.
Cars uniquely offer us the ability to get in and go. And to keep going as long as we dare. This is the definition of personal independence. Cars are nothing less than our freedom.
That’s why we made CarEnvy.ca. It’s our pledge of solidarity to our brothers. We might not always be on these pages, but we’re always on Facebook and (especially) Twitter and even right in front of you, talking to you face-to-face. We’re here because we must. There is no other way.
We believe in cars. So do you. That’s why we’re here. That’s what unites us. That’s what brings us together and makes us strong. That’s what gives us such a strong voice. We’re not quiet. We won’t stop.
We believe in cars.