Agree that cars are in many ways terrible for human happiness, but as I've tried to point out before, you and most of your readers have a very myopic perspective on capitalism and power.

Power has and always will have a tendency to aggregate for those who already possess it, and to be sucked away from those who have little to begin with. That doesn't mean we can't fight the tendency, but it is hard to fight, and it happens naturally. It doesn't need zealots or ideologues to perpetuate it. It happens on its own.

Black holes pull matter towards them, tall trees block the sun from the understory, empires gain territory, etc.

The problem with modern life is not capitalism - it's that the pattern of power aggregation is exacerbated by globalization, which is enabled by our technological advances in communication and transportation. Globalization is what causes the global elite to have such a wider reach than the little people. Because rather than a local tribal leader having control over the small territory around their village, we have people pulling resources from all around the world.

The possible solution, therefore, is to encourage trends that have a dispersing - rather than aggregating - effect on power.

For example, solar powered roofs put power production in the hands of individual homeowners, rather than giant power companies. And vertical and hydroponic farming might allow more food to be grown locally, rather than relying on it to be shipped in from faraway places. Even electric cars may play a small role, since they can take some power away from the oil barons.

We have to think critically about real solutions, not just complain about the big evil lie of capitalism - which in fact is, for the most part, not a lie or an ideology, but simply a reliable pattern of the universe which can only be mitigated by our cleverness - not by our self-righteousness.