Automotive Rumination

Cars are, on their deepest level the ultimate tool. They are tools in that they are a piece of equipment that must be expertly guided by experienced hands. Their only purpose is to enhance our physical abilities, in particular our physical ability to move from place to place. As human beings we get these awesome brains and the weakest, slowest bodies in pretty much the entire animal kingdom. Not only does the car address this, but it addresses it in the form of a tool. As a subspecies of monkey that has conquered the world through a better and more efficient understanding of tools than any other subspecies of monkey, I find the automobile profoundly compelling. It doesn't just give me results, it gives me results through my own skillful tool usage.