At Variance

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Category: Note
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 ...
Category: Note
Often when we are compelled to be engaged in an activity of such nature which satisfies most people, those activities which the egalitarian agreeing majority all around us find either stimulating or necessary, activities which appear to make them quite content as they occupy themselves en masse day in day out with these, we feel in ourselves a vague resistance born of boredom. It is as if vaguely in the background some monster of emptiness creeps upon us, as if some cloud of dull greyness comes over our mind, or as if we find ourselves in a desert where some ...