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What makes you think I never experienced a revving engine? Heh.

You can't explain it because it is all in your head, it is an illusion, a subjective sense of empowerment that does not actually exist. It is a yearning by people that cannot make any other mark in the world, just a big noise. Look how much noise I can make! It is an atavistic feeling of the lizard brain.

You are neither better, nor more successful, nor looked up - it is just noise and that noise satisfies you, because it makes you (mistakenly) believe that people are paying attention to you.




Or I just like the noise. I have the most fun with my car when Iā€™m in the middle of absolute nowhere with no one else in sight or earshot. Your argument is way off base.


The noise of a good engine is something I miss myself.

There is something to be said for the elegance of silence and sheer power, though!




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