Restless web of desire

Restless web of desire

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 satisfied another desire comes into his mind, and he moves himself in order to grab the other object. And so he tirelessly moves horizontally all day, either to grab the object instantly, or to his work, in order be able to do much moving and grabbing later, until he is tired at the end of the day, in order to repeat the same thing afresh the next day.
Being increasingly insensitive to a myriad of finer and spontaneous pleasures, not able to transport himself other than horizontally and physically chasing definite obtainable physical objects and commercially pre-baked 'experiences' at some definite location, being ever more unable to enjoy and be transported in a disinterested manner. The pleasure afforded by grabbing the objects and experiences which he pursues, by ever more being pre-baked  are short-lived by their nature, so the ease of being able to move, speed and sensual comfort while moving has become the main objective of modern man. He is ever more locked up in a craze of desperate moving and grabbing, building a senseless desire-driven web of roads and highways on which he may collectively rapidly in the shortest and straightest way move towards definite locations in his pre-baked web by means of his crude but functional vehicle of transportation.

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