From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 02:45:58 MST
spike66:
>We have a distorted view of the world because of the fact that we
>drive,
Indeed the world looks and feels very different by bicycle.
>Could we not fill the space and use the energy for beings that spend
>their lives thinking thinking thinking?
Are you assuming that thinking beings cannot move at the same time?
Or that they would rather think than move?
Don't thinking beings need/like/want to move? Depending on one's
mode of transportation, you can often think and move at the same time. :-)
For your idea to be a reality, you'd have to transform a car-culture
(or in Italy's case, a scooter-culture) to a better-transportation
culture. People *like* their cars, so much that many use them
in places where cars don't fit and the fuel is outrageously
expensive. Give them easy, independent, and cheap transportation,
that also permits an occasional rush and a buzz, and your
pi(e)-in-the-sky dream might someday be real.
Amara
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