Bikes for America!
The campaign to deslothify Americans!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Bike For America
As I drove across the street to my local grocery store, in my temperature-controlled vehicle, listening to my radio, something struck me. NPR's program was educating me on the need of bikes in Zambia. This was approximately the 37th proclamation I had heard in the past 12 months imploring America to provide another country with bikes... Bikes for Indonesia, Bikes for Rwanda, Bikes for Uganda, Bikes for Zambia... I vote to start a "Bikes for America" campaign. Let's get all of our lazy butts out of our comfortable vehicles and onto some bikes. Instead of depending on new years resolution weight loss gimmicks, lets start peddling across the street. Instead of sleeping in and leaving last minute to speed to work, how about waking our lazy tails early enough to peddling to work... or school... or church. Whatever.
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exactly.
People need to be biking outside more instead of buying egoistical treadmills, which take up space in their stupid basements and sit there pompously embedding little reward except pride and conceited contempt.
lol, but seriously. I think so much of the modern life is made through rational choices, (like, get as much sleep as possible before work, or drive to work and save time, or be as efficient as you can be, or buy a treadmill) but surprisingly the outcome of those 'rational' choices becomes irrational (or these rational ideas are not making our lives better the way we thought).
I think in someways think we need to more dynamic then rational. I think movement and dynamicism is a route to a kind of sanctitude. NOt to be promoting relativism at all, but im just saying that movement, whether it be physical or metaphorical, may not be always rational (as in getting to work and saving time), but it is good often times good for the soul.
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