I came across this interesting, at least to me, piece in the NY Times by a person who is walking the path from humanity's origins in the Rift Valley to its last settlement at the tip of South America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/op...=1&ref=opinion
These quotes from the article describe how I often feel about the people around me who have chosen, often without realizing there are other choices, to make a habit of car use:
The writer Rebecca Solnit nails this mind-set perfectly in her book “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”: “In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.”
I just call it Car Brain.
Cocooned inside a bubble of loud noise and a tonnage of steel, members of the internal combustion tribe tend to adopt ownership of all consumable space.
I thought some of the people who frequent the LCF forum would also enjoy this article.