Regarding the conception of FACING FUTURE, I was hoping that this thread might bring out the optimists in some of us, and mull over ideas of how we can work together sychronistically, rather than offer fatalistic complaints about how stuck we are in the present.

Yeah, if we each just bike commute to our separate jobs, in the sphere of our small lives, not much will change. Maybe we're just fighting the forces of Darwinian Nature and we can't escape extinction, so why not party on? Maybe not, then what?

I think the moral thread in each of us pushes us beyond merely owning the glory of bike commuting for *just* the self gratification, eh?