I’ve had this lovely song of racial reconciliation and furniturial comfort stuck in my head intermittently for about a year now.

If you’ve never heard it, you’re in for a delightful minute-and-a-half.

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Cuz society won’t just mediate itself.

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Ivan Illich comparing cars to bikes:

[The average American driver] spends four of his sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering his resources for it.”

“[He] puts in 1,600 hours to get 7,500 miles: less than five miles per hour. In countries deprived of a transportation industry, people manage to do the same, walking wherever they want to go.…

What distinguishes the traffic in rich countries from the traffic in poor countries is not more mileage per hour of life-time for the majority, but more hours of compulsory consumption of high doses of energy.…

On the other hand,

Man on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process.

And to close, here’s a quote that I don’t at all understand, but ending with it will make me feel smart:

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion.

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He says that maybe it’s the businessman in him that motivates him to dislike offering drivers license tests in multiple languages.

But we all know it’s actually the ______ in him.

You fill in the blank.

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You only need to watch the first 30 seconds.

Update: Here’s a higher quality version with several angles and replays.

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