Coffehouse Bi-cycling

I hope everyone had a chance to read the Star Tribune today, because today in the source section not only was my beloved bi-cycle featured prominently above the fold, but they also spoke of something called coffeehouse bi-cycling.

This is an activity that has increased in recent years as people realize that the stress and pollution inherent in automobile usage is not what intelligent citizens should inflict upon society. Nevermind the cumbersome and futile nature of such vehicles. So, in response there has been an uprising of those who have begun coffeehouse bi-cycling, not only as a mode of transportation, but as a philosophy for life.

Selected masses have begun seeing the pressure corporate suits force upon themselves and the consuming public, and have said, "no more." They have ceased worshipping at the alter of the greenback and big oil; stopped supersizing; and overcome the willfully ignorant attitude that has seeped into society by way of the television.

Instead, they have sought a lifestyle that is not centralized on making money from fooling others, but on the pursuit of the scholarly, cultured, and aesthetic aspects of life. They do this while discussing the days events in a locally owned coffeehouse (hence the name), while pondering the course of life under the sanctimonious shade of a resiliant oak tree in one of this city's fine publicly-funded parks, or when conversing about how best to improve life for others and in turn everyone through the use of taxes.

However this lifestyle is lead, it is a lifestyle of function. A lifestyle of devotion. A lifestyle that at the day's end will have shown a contribution to society. And unlike the fruitless and shallow efforts of those dealing in stock and finance, it is a lifestyle that can and will produce a progressive and forward-looking society, not lead to it's downfall.