Any way to bannish 'icon' view... forever?

I have nothing against icon view, each to their own, but it's just not my cup of tea. I've searched high and low through preferences and view settings, but for the life of me I can not find any global settings for icon/list/column view... that will stick. I've been using macs for 10 years, and I think I've asked this question with each new release of OSX.
I know I can open a window, set the view, close it, and the view will be remembered, fine for frequently used folders. It's the IN-frequently used folders that bother me, the thousands and thousands of infrequently used folders, also mounted drives, CD's, external disks, etc etc, which for some reason always default to icon view when you first open them.
Why oh why is there no way to set the default view for ALL folder windows? Or is there?

There is a "workaround" which is to manually change any icon view windows immediately to column view and then close the window without doing anything else. Then it will open in col. view next time. But for a really solid "fix" you need to be logged in as root. Then if you change the global setting it will affect all windows for all users for all time. This is because root is the "owner" of many of the folders above your users level even though you are the admin.
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