--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > > > --- 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 > > Very interesting. One wonders how he would solve the > mystery of what caused Republicans and Conservatives > prior to the era of the automobile.
That was officially funny. >
