Classics Monthly

IAIN AYRE THOUGHTS ON CLUB LIFE

Car clubs can be cheery and supportive fun, but they can also be seething hotbeds of suppressed social and political rage, erupting into palace coups and anarchic new breakaway clubs, defiantly independent and contemptuous of the old order and determined to rise above petty infighting and uphold the purity of their new mission. Until they too have a civil war and yet another breakaway faction raises its own flag and strides forth to the sunlit uplands of independence and freedom. With some models, this process can repeat itself so

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