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on your bike

December 27, 2006

Alistair sent me this, and I like it, I like it a lot.

"Bicycles let people move with greater speed without taking up significant
amounts of scarce space, energy, or time. They can spend fewer hours on each
mile and still travel more miles in a year. They can get the benefit of
technological breakthroughs without putting undue claims on the schedules,
energy, or space of others. They become masters of their own movements
without blocking those of their fellows. Their new tool creates only those
demands which it can also satisfy. Every increase in motorized speed creates
new demands on space and time. The use of the bicycle is self-limiting. It
allows people to create a new relationship between their life-space and
their life-time, between their territory and the pulse of their being,
without destroying their inherited balance. The advantages of modern
self-powered traffic are obvious, and ignored. That better traffic runs
faster is asserted, but never proved. Before they ask people to pay for it,
those who propose acceleration should try to display the evidence for their claim."
 
You can read more of this guy's writing here     

 


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iconoclasst said...

Geez, where ya been? Been quoting Illich for quite a while now. Brilliant dude. Unfortunately, he's gone forever and so, one imagines, is his way of thinking.

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