Originally Posted by
kmac27
99% of the people I know of always point out its awesome that I bike because of how green it is. When in reality I don't really care about how green it is, I just care about how awesome biking out on the open road is. Why can't people understand that people still ride bikes not because they save money, or are good for the planet, but that biking is fun!?
It is up to you to educate them, not complain about them.
Blame is perhaps the easiest of all doctrines to adopt, in that it demands nothing of you but outrage.
Remember, the average Joe Citizen is flooded with Green messages day in and day out. There is an @ss of money and gain to be made from the Eco Revolution. Fortunes and careers are being forged from it as we speak. The advertising and coercion that drives this explosion, both private and government sponsored, is only in it's infancy. SO dont blame the man on the street for unwittingly regurgitating what he is told - he knows no better.
Your greatest challenge, now, is to school and engage him in what matters to you... before he loses the ability to think for himself. Consider it your public service.