the convenience ethic has been a major source of cultural contamination. in the name of convenience, we have machines to do all of our work forus and then we have to specifically go to gyms in order to recover the physical activity that should be an integrated part of our lives from teh get-go.
think about it. happiness is the journey, not the destination.
communities who have to walk distances for their water, for example, can enjoy the walk and the fellowship and appreciate the water. but instead we get our water from a tap, waste it like crazy, and run on treadmills (& suffer unbelievably high rates of obesity)
on taht same note, what does a car do for u?
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"Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere" - Amiri Baraka