Do we want roads?

We do not construct things, so much as remove their absence.

If we think of an office tower block in a city, clearly this has been constructed. But we can look at it another way; before the building, there was a problem of insufficient office space in the city. This has been remedied by the new building.

A school does not educate, it removes ignorance, just as a hospital does not make us healthy, it removes illness. We 'fix' things by removing the problem, not by the construction of a remedy. Roads are not built, we clear a pathway for vehicles to pass through. We do not construct, we remove obstacles, problems. The solution appears automatically when the problem is addressed. Who will solve the problem of an absence of roads? Who will build a shelter to protect us from the rain?

We might not want the symbols of a collective group such as motorways and armies, even prisons.