Well put, though personally I would have extracted a sliver of troublemaking glee changing 'leaded gasoline' out for 'the automobile culture' in general.
I'm sure that it goes by many other names in other philosophies, though you would probably be hard-pushed to find one that analyzed its nature as early and to such an extent as the Buddhists did.
What you are getting at is what the old-school Buddhists call sati or mindfulness: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#sati
I'm sure that it goes by many other names in other philosophies, though you would probably be hard-pushed to find one that analyzed its nature as early and to such an extent as the Buddhists did.