Bad At Planes Pt. 2

The act of flying in an aircraft might seem liberating to some, but it is a loss of control that I totally cannot fathom. I can’t handle the thought that I am so totally vulnerable and there is nothing I can do about it. Nor did I really ask to be put in this position. Ship travel still seems practical enough to me. I wouldn’t mind lying on a cot in the hull of a cargo ship, wedged between bunches of bananas. I could pretend I was a banana. Also, potassium.

If we aren’t technologically advanced enough to travel via a network of human shaped tubes, then why travel at all really? Alternatively, to avoid polluting the ocean with human tubes, we should develop a canon with an transatlantic range. You’d have to pack lightly, but the departure from materialism would surely be more liberating than aviation.