--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > No, it's not mental retardation, although that could be a > factor. It's not walking. > > In this interesting article, a theory is proposed that > living in a town or city that is comfortable to walk around, > and thus encourages walking, creates a vastly different > cognitive mapping through which we see the universe than > does living in a place where you drive everywhere. I have > certainly seen the truth of this living in Europe, which > incidentally tends to produce people with more liberal > views, *except* in the burbs where people live distanced > from other people and have to drive wherever they're going. > Interesting theory. > > http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03151301.aspx >
So little towns with low crime-rates should be bastions of liberalism? Yeah, right. L
