Ok, I see what you meant, and we're in complete agreement at that level. It seems utterly bizarre to me when I hear Bush talking about using more technology for us to get ourselves out of the fossil fuel/global warming mess we've gotten ourselves into, and things like the hydrogen highway, when, for one thing, very simple, cheap solutions like just riding bicycles a lot more are so easily available, (for chrissake). In that sense, bicycles ARE the more powerful.

I spoke from the mindset of unthinking or militant motorists. I was talking in the sense of how, say, bull mammals size each other up before a fight, or what would happen if a lone wolf trotted into a pack and lay down on its back exposing its stomach. Pecking order and all that. These dynamics also can be seen in Internet forums.