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Title : "[Matthew] Crawford is out to defend what he calls 'homo moto,' the human being who moves purposively through the world rather than being simply carried through it..."
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"[Matthew] Crawford is out to defend what he calls 'homo moto,' the human being who moves purposively through the world rather than being simply carried through it..."
"... who uses a 'car or a motorcycle as a kind of prosthetic that amplifies our embodied capacities,' who gains freedom, familiarity and mastery by navigating swiftly through a complex landscape. Driving, Crawford argues, remains an important 'form of organic civic life' and a 'realm of interaction that demands the skills of cooperation and improvisation.' Whereas its possible replacements, especially the supposed self-driving utopia, transform democratic agents into isolated passengers moving under algorithmic power, no longer 'mentally involved in our own navigation and locomotion,' ruled, scrutinized and passive...."Writes Ross Douthat, in "What Driving Means for America" (NYT).
Matthew Crawford book — which Douthat read as he drove his family across the country in a minivan — is "Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road."
More from Douthat:
[W]hile Crawford wants to defend the road as a seedbed for democratic virtues, he is himself a natural automotive aristocrat — a well-trained mechanic who loves to refit battered vehicles, a motorcyclist drawn to intense auto-subcultures.... I have spent most of my life driving station wagons and minivans....
The virtues involved in being a good driver — the mix of independence and cooperation, knowledge and responsibility — really are virtues well suited to citizenship in a sprawling and diverse republic. And if driving makes some people distinctly anxious, learning to do it well, or just well enough, is also a tonic for anxiety, an easily available antidote to the sense that the world is pure chaos, beyond anyone’s control. That anxious, hopeless sense seems particularly widespread among younger Americans, the same group retreating from car culture....
If you do not drive your neighborhood or region, what form of adult mastery and knowledge are you seeking in its place? If you do not drive your country’s highways and byways, what path do you have to a nonvirtual experience of the America beyond your class and tribe and bubble?
If the road is a "seedbed for democratic virtues," what politics grow out of these different driving experiences? A loner without a schedule who's concocted his own hotrod will not develop into the same sort of citizen as the a man with NYT columns to write enduring the forced togetherness of 3 weeks in a minivan with his wife and kids.
What form of adult mastery and knowledge are you seeking down which byway?
For the last few months, until just the other day, we owned 3 vehicles — my beloved 17-year-old Audi TT, a 4-year-old Honda CRV, and a new Ford F-150 truck with a slide-in camper. One of these had to go, and it's easy to see which one fails the love test. It's also the completely practical, functional one, the one you'd want if you moved about the highways and byways with a family. We sold the CRV, of course. Wouldn't you, if you were us?
Now, the 2 vehicles represent big extremes in the seeking of mastery and knowledge.
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"... who uses a 'car or a motorcycle as a kind of prosthetic that amplifies our embodied capacities,' who gains freedom, familiarity and mastery by navigating swiftly through a complex landscape. Driving, Crawford argues, remains an important 'form of organic civic life' and a 'realm of interaction that demands the skills of cooperation and improvisation.' Whereas its possible replacements, especially the supposed self-driving utopia, transform democratic agents into isolated passengers moving under algorithmic power, no longer 'mentally involved in our own navigation and locomotion,' ruled, scrutinized and passive...."
Writes Ross Douthat, in "What Driving Means for America" (NYT).
Writes Ross Douthat, in "What Driving Means for America" (NYT).
Matthew Crawford book — which Douthat read as he drove his family across the country in a minivan — is "Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road."
More from Douthat:
[W]hile Crawford wants to defend the road as a seedbed for democratic virtues, he is himself a natural automotive aristocrat — a well-trained mechanic who loves to refit battered vehicles, a motorcyclist drawn to intense auto-subcultures.... I have spent most of my life driving station wagons and minivans....
The virtues involved in being a good driver — the mix of independence and cooperation, knowledge and responsibility — really are virtues well suited to citizenship in a sprawling and diverse republic. And if driving makes some people distinctly anxious, learning to do it well, or just well enough, is also a tonic for anxiety, an easily available antidote to the sense that the world is pure chaos, beyond anyone’s control. That anxious, hopeless sense seems particularly widespread among younger Americans, the same group retreating from car culture....
If you do not drive your neighborhood or region, what form of adult mastery and knowledge are you seeking in its place? If you do not drive your country’s highways and byways, what path do you have to a nonvirtual experience of the America beyond your class and tribe and bubble?
If the road is a "seedbed for democratic virtues," what politics grow out of these different driving experiences? A loner without a schedule who's concocted his own hotrod will not develop into the same sort of citizen as the a man with NYT columns to write enduring the forced togetherness of 3 weeks in a minivan with his wife and kids.
What form of adult mastery and knowledge are you seeking down which byway?
For the last few months, until just the other day, we owned 3 vehicles — my beloved 17-year-old Audi TT, a 4-year-old Honda CRV, and a new Ford F-150 truck with a slide-in camper. One of these had to go, and it's easy to see which one fails the love test. It's also the completely practical, functional one, the one you'd want if you moved about the highways and byways with a family. We sold the CRV, of course. Wouldn't you, if you were us?
Now, the 2 vehicles represent big extremes in the seeking of mastery and knowledge.
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