Imaginations become unbound through liberating action!
It seems that our transportation behaviour provides us with quite a feedback loop. Here are two recipes. The first is for binding human imagination to self-destructive, unsustainable transportation practice. The second is a recipe for liberating human imagination to health-giving, sustainable transportation practice.
Feel free to use the latter every day, and play around with the recipe as well -- add your own ingredients and such, as you like!
Recipe for "Imaginations Imprisoned" --
Combine one part mass media input with one part car-oriented urban infrastructure design; add two parts "everybody else is doing it" reinforcement; stir in one part "comfort-bubble-conditioning" with a pinch of "laziness-we-all-share"
Pour this mixture into human experience and allow to fossilize. Remember, the more this process is repeated, the more firmly our imaginations will be bound.
In no time, we've cooked up a batch of imaginations bound to the detriment of our health, our city's health and to the detriment of the generations entering this degraded environment we leave as a legacy.
Recipe for "Imaginations Unbound"
Combine one part input from friendly bike activists with a beautiful day. Add two parts of wonderful endorphins generated from exercise; stir in one part connection with nature and with fellow humans along the way. Add a pinch of thought for the creating a better future for yourself and those who are being born even as you ride, and stir well with images of urban infrastructure slowly transformed to accomodate human-scale transportation as the rule rather than the exception.
Pour this mixture into human experience and allow to ferment. Remember, the more this process is repeated the more our imaginations will be liberated into healthier living and a more joyous future for all!
You see, we can cook up a batch of imaginations liberated for the benefit of our health, our city's health and for the benefitof generations entering this enriched environment we leave as a legacy.
-cheers!
Gary Hoover
Kingfield
In a message dated 5/16/02 5:44:05 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Biked, as I do on four of five non-icy/snowy days. By the way, credit for
this goes directly to Ken Avidor, Gary Hoover, Robin Garwood and all the
other bicyclists who made me rethink the necessity of my carbon-based trips,
especially the short ones during good weather. Also thanks to the 50th
Street activists, whose survey made me realize that for all the complaining
we do about "suburbanites using the city streets as a highway" the problem
really is US using the city streets as a highway.
Thanks, guys - my doc says thanks too!
