Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving

quote [ “Not only do people do what the world makes easy, but because it feels easy, people conclude that it’s right,” Walker said. ]

wow, that certainly stroke some chords.
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+4 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:17pmGMT]

Comments

damnit said @ 10:11pm GMT on 7th Mar
It's related to how you can use anything as a metaphor for life (life is song, life is golf, life is a puzzle, etc.)
Paracetamol said @ 6:19am GMT on 8th Mar
no, it occurs to me often how people are even attracted to cars and car infrastructure. This is basically a scientific approach of what I pondered with in my head.
WeiYang said @ 4:10pm GMT on 8th Mar
20 years of working for Motor Vehicles rewired my brain to hate the fucking things
yogi said @ 5:39pm GMT on 16th Mar
I think comparing driving a car to smoking cigarettes is not apt. There are too many variables--suburb v. urban; lack of mass transit in certain areas which necessitates using a car; advent of electric cars (I have a Tesla and it's great!); and general urban sprawl, which was created in order to rely on the car.

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