“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
Sigmund Freud
The car is an artificial set of legs that gives you massive mobility. A vehicle gives you options, it gives you freedoms, it gives you creative capacities. It extends us as humans into more than we could ever be. It is that mobility that is the story. People fall in love with cars because it allows creativity, because it’s crazy fast, because it allows us time in relationships with others, and the places it takes us. The car opened up commerce and expansion of the sale of good and services.
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The prosthetic quality of the automobile is a magnifier of the human spirit. That is what is really magical about the automobile.
I like the part about the automobile being part of the human spirit. That’s what the Corvette was all about for me. I thought about myself as not needing nor wanting any more cars, gasoline, electric or otherwise. I see these massive collections that different people have and the collections are just mini or even maxi places of storage for a combination of restored to better than new to poorly maintained and rusting hulks out in nature, just slowly returning themselves to the earth. The C8 Corvette represented to me (a Porsche guy who also has a Mustang) a whole new hope for the ingenuity of Americans. To me, it was the car not expected. Imagine producing a car that magnified the human spirit in an era where gasoline is gradually on the way out; where electric vehicles are the order of the day; where cities and countries are prohibiting gasoline vehicles within their city limits, leaving room only for the sale and use of electric cars and cars that drive themselves for people, deliveries and cargo. No parking lot problems. How divine. Freud’s quote here leaves me with the idea that maybe some of this is moving towards the de-magnifier (minimizer) of the human spirit. Ask Mr. Freud. What is better: full depression or the C8 Corvette?