Thank you for the recommendation. Looking forward to read it! > in a culture that confuses the mechanism of liberation (the car) with liberation itself, It's

Thank you for the recommendation. Looking forward to read it! > in a culture that confuses the mechanism of liberation (the car) with liberation itself, It's essentially reification. I often think modernity is fully characterized by it. The inability to divorce aspirational visions from its material implementation. It's essentially the disappearance of imagination. We no longer can imagine because we are tethered to a material anchors. This is why something like a flying car can be imagined, but not something vague like virtuous personal mobility. The first is tangible, the latter is a diffuse constellation of technologies, mindset, systems, behaviors. Pulling down that threat, (just going down the rabbit hole here), but this process has been playing out for 150 years now. Commoditization of everything. Making tangible the wealth of human experience. If it cannot be made as a marketable object, it cannot exist, cannot be imagined.