Noise violations
A correspondent reminds me that we have too narrow a definition of “noise.” As we had been discussing roads, and were considering traffic signs, and as Donald Knuth was mentioned (who once refused to move into a town whose signage was typographically vile), the need to erase unnecessary traffic instructions was raised. And all traffic instructions are unnecessary, or will become unnecessary when we have deleted the highway system.
My correspondent also included photographs of a selection of street signs, monstrously numerous, and viciously ugly, from around the city of London, Ontario (whose excess population now includes a hundred thousand cars). There were many satanic touches, such as the shrieking clash of competing illegible signs, replaced by the moronic bureaucrats who run that city with a single large sign incorporating all the little signs in every detail, so that the clash could be fully appreciated. These malefactors, and many of the other functionaries in that town, could benefit from vigorous punishment.
One of the advantages of closing down all (the typically asphalt-paved) public streets and highways, is that we can make a clean sweep of all the road signs. I suggest melting them down before randomly distributing the remains in junk yards. Alternatively, the wise riflemen of the remoter Ontario districts already use them for target practice, and they rust much faster when they are full of holes. No one should ever be reminded of this age of slavery to crude automotive and pedestrian commands, once we have been freed of them. And of course not just appalling road signs in point sizes some twenty times that used for Shakespeare. For they constitute an assault of aggressive bullyings that abridge our liberties.