Book Description
But that is America where individuality has turned to paranoid unease. This is the best, insecure, psychology to sell commodities to. Buy a house and feel secure. I doesn't matter if you are unemployed for more than two months your house is foreclosed. The compression of the paranoid, indebted, future consists of nothing but black swans and planes hitting buildings. Every american returns from the further alienating woods and expects to be caught in a school shooting. Yet they are divided and conquered to, 'invest in the future' by paying for the future. Their life is one of speculation and mistakenly paying for a bulwark against the inevitable demise. The model T rendered type of freedom from alienation, anomie, spatial alienation and the self in that the mere idea that you could visit the farm of the emotionally retarded neighbors two miles away in Iowa was a boost to the ego in the modernist project. Now you can teleport anywhere. It doesn't matter that content is lacking.
