The cause behind the increasingly ugly and crude functional aesthetics of the modern car and its required web of transportation lies in the fact that modern man hardly has any other ways of moving and being moved, of transporting himself other than by means of constant gratification of desires, pursuing, chasing and grabbing this or that object of his will. Desires which can only be satisfied by moving horizontally, either himself, or having others move for him. And so he moves en mass all day looking for gratification of his desires, and as soon as this one desire is temporarily ...