Does this mean that pedestrians were previously encouraged to cross when vehicles could drive into them?
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Yes. So many cars trying to turn into the crosswalk as soon as their light turned green, not bothering to notice there were pedestrians there too.
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Sounds like a good, honest living to me!
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Bender sees this as a mirror to our own past: My impression is that in Europe, we used to have this connection 1000 years, 2000 years ago, with the feelings and understanding of what’s going with the river similar to those of the Nez Perce
I’m sorry, but that’s ahistorical BS. A thousand years ago (well 1200 years), Charlemagne attempted to build the Fossa Carolina to link the Rhine/Main system to the Danube system and enable direct trade between the North Sea and the Black Sea. Two thousand years ago, the Romans diverted entire rivers into aqueducts, moats and sewers.
The article makes a good and very important point, and one that I have thought about a lot as well, but it’s not helped by this sort of pseudo-spiritual noble savage adjacent environment myth.
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Didn’t Kerouac kill Kerouac? You know, by drinking himself to death? 
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