From 1978 to 1995, the Freedom Club (FC) sent bombs through the mail, to universities and airlines, triggering an FBI investigation named UNABOM. In an agreement that would end the bombings, the “manifesto” of the Freedom Club, Industrial Society and its Future, was published in the New York Times and the Washington Post in 1995.

Even before the decline of the horse-drawn transportation industry (and the subsequent loss of jobs that nobody cares about anymore), road vehicles have been status symbols. Stage coaches were meant to show off the wealth of the occupants, while at the same time, giving them “privacy” from all the dirty riff-raff outside.