We humans have no natural predator you might say but that is not true: there is one.
It kills millions of humans every year; about one every 30 seconds.
It’s a major contributor to a global conspiracy to destroy as much of the environment that humans require to survive as possible; to kill even more humans at an accelerating pace and make the survivors miserable.
Even without its co-conspirators it’s capable of turning entire bustling cities into places unfit for humans.
Humans now plan their cities specifically with this predator in mind; building some defences but with ultimately little success at curbing its free roam.
Worst yet: It has successfully fooled humans into thinking they are dependent on it when in fact the opposite is the case.
It’s a predator that we have created ourselves:
The car.
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The cars themselves are but a symptom of the issue. The real predators are those who push street design that prioritizes vehicle throughput over safety. The real predators are those who push vehicle designs more deadly for pedestrians but “safer” for passengers who feel like they’re in a tank. The real predators are those who believe there is a non-zero number of avoidable innocent deaths that’s an acceptable trade-off for the bottom line.
Kevin McMansion in his suburban house with a lifted F-250 is victim to a parasitic infection. It’s the car lobby primarily responsible for those memetic brainworms, but their playbook is endemic to our way of life. When Kevin kills a toddler backing out of his driveway because the backup camera is 3ft off the ground, that child, Kevin, and their community pay the price (death, trauma, pain, guilt), but the industry has successfully turned this scenario into nothing more than one of many externalized costs of doing business.