Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would be front page news worldwide, a Nobel prize as good as in the post. That drug is already here, albeit administered in a slightly different way: it’s called cycling to work.
Peter Walker, The Guardian
After seeing a huge NHS advert on the internet telling us of the benefits of cycling to work I thought to myself, should we really be cycling in order to work (which is what 'cycling to work' effectively means)? I used to cycle to work (when I used to work) until I realised that I wasn't actually cycling to work but 'cycling in order to work' and thus 'contributing to the quagmire' by powering it with my clean and beautiful energy. Cycling to work just meant that I could 'work better' as in be a more awake worker and more pleasant. But that was just like putting a clownsuit on the rapist: the work became 'disguised' by your endorphins and it became more bearable even enjoyable. It was like having a good time in prison even though one should never have a good time in prison. You don't want to 'work better' (if your work is like most of the work in this world as in the unrestrained exploitation of Nature and your fellow man), you want to 'work worse' or even better, transform that work into good natural work, as in 'no work'.
And so I stopped cycling to work by stopping working. Now, I just cycle.
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