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The roads weren't as crazy, even with the 70MPH limits. It was dangerous in some areas, especially in cities or congestion where we were told to sit still. "You don't want me to come back there!" We heard about tragedies as if they were halloween horror stories. Nothing hit close to home. Where I grew up I don't recall a single problem. We crawled all over the place in the wagon on camping trips and did our share of greeting truckers. These days, more distractions, heavy traffic, and dangerous drivers, whether of their own making or because of the other things it's hard to know.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195