Motonormativity

My vote for word of the year (and, unfortunately, for the 20th and 21st centuries)

The world we live in is built for cars, so it just makes sense to drive. So get with the program, already. (“Zoom Zoom,” No Money Down, welcome to a lifetime of debt.)

That is the essence of “Motonormativity,” a term employed by Ian Walker, an enviromental psychology professor at the Swansea University in Wales and the lead author of a paper published la…