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Isn't that the very definition of progress? I'm pretty sure the horse-and-cart worked just fine when the automobile came around.



horse-and-cart didn't stop working when the automobile came around. The proposal here is that we shoot all horses and burn all carts because somebody somewhere has started driving an automobile.


No, the proposal here is that we ban horses and carts from the interstate highway system because they get in the way of the new faster automobiles.




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