Everything is just more TV

"In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV.  You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame."

"On a cycle the frame is gone.  You're completely in contact with it all.  You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming...the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness."

~Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance