Flying

I have just returned from my last journey travelling by plane. Part of the reason for the decision not to fly anymore is the climate and the CO2-monster. I have this immense unease about warm weather and have chosen to believe the 95% of scientists who claim fossil fuels to be the culprit (together with cement production) in this years European hell on Earth heat wave. But I was never really fond of flying anyway and am now looking forward to the unorthodox ways I have to invent to go see other places.

First of all flying is cramped, smelly, embalms my body with pressure cabin a/c and has this unpredictable commotions - like riding a rollercoaster blindfolded. But flying is also so God damn unromantic. (On that note I acknowledge Hive account@ocrdu's arguments championing the gasoline engine. The combustion engine is coarse, stinking, noisy, ineffective and inelegant, but it has this aura of manliness, freedom and roadside kills that in the end makes up for all the shortcomings.)

Planes lost all that when it became safe and cheap and commercials like these started to show up.

I know that train commercials (as far as anybody even tries to promote railways these days) use the same impotent sticky sauce IKEA globalist glamour to sell tickets, but Marlene Dietrich, and Hitchcock doesn't rub off that easily.

Furthermore you can sit in a train in suit and tie reading a book, and when you reach your destination you will immediately leave the train as a free man standing on a piss-stinking platform complete with junkies and art nouveau pillars in the centre of a European metropolis, or on a deserted, rainy intermediate station somewhere in the countryside waiting to be picked up by a deaf old man in a rusty Toyota Corolla.

When you are flying you have to be herded around for hours both before and after the actual trip in these bland modern airports made by suicidal architects, and you have to do it together with people openly wearing the Neck Pillow!

But now I went and did it anyway as I had to go to South Africa with my family to see the place due to... things that would reveal too much about my secret identity! But a necessary journey it was and now I am back I am glad it was such a good experience. Especially considering I just participated in killing the climate that suits us mammals.