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Social researchers have dubbed this phenomenon "motonormativity"[1] and it is remarkably powerful. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/motonorma

• ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
  Also disparagingly known as car-brain.
  • blamazon 3y ago
    Perhaps to defuse the denigrative aspect of the term we should think of it as analogous to the 'lizard brain' as not a disease but something of an interior module we all have within us - on a day to day basis most people can generally introspect on the contributions of the lizard brain to our thoughts and feelings[1] , why not should we similarly introspect on the car brain and think on a similarly higher order level? [1] Tangential reading: 'Why Buddhism is True' by Robert Wight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Buddhism_Is_True https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Buddhism_Is_True https://www.npr.org/transcripts/541610511 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/541610511