You're not thinking like an authoritarian enough. Some farmer living in Nepal might as well say, "Imagine driving a car just to buy a dozen eggs because you do

You're not thinking like an authoritarian enough. Some farmer living in Nepal might as well say, "Imagine driving a car just to buy a dozen eggs because you don't want to walk - isn't this a sign of mental illness?" However, Americans do it all the time, not because they're exceptionally lazy or mentally ill, but because the driving infrastructure is so exceptionally good that there's no reason not to use it. Driving is just what you do every day, without much thinking, instead of something that must be deliberately planned and executed. (Whether that's a net plus to America as a whole is, of course, a different question altogether.)