the ritual of the moyotl nextlaōyotl, or car-sacrifice. once the skies over the cities of the aztec triple alliance were permanently black with smoke from burning cars. a practice as old as human society. cave paintings show great herds of self-driving cars puttering over the plains of ice age europe… you can track the domestication of the car by neolithic steppe peoples in the increasing frequency of burned-out cars in kurgan burial mounds… vedic hymns to the car, the speed and beauty of the car, beloved of surya, followed by instructions on how to immolate a car and disassemble its remains… emperor wu of han making war on the da yuan to capture their fleet of offroad suvs, the cars that alexander drove across persia to the banks of the indus, and burning the first car he receives in a feng sacrifice on the summit of mount tai… in the second temple era, obviously, rich israelites driving luxury sedans into jerusalem to be anointed with olive oil and given as a burnt-offering to the lord. jesus said there is more piety in one who offers a bicycle with a humble heart, but through all of history we have known that the car is good to burn, that its fiery destruction is part of the beauty and power of the car…