Transport as Drug

The act of being carried is more dangerous and devious than you could possibly imagine. It is at the root of all man's problems. Whether ideological or physical the act of being carried is at one and the same time the act of being deported from one's original scene of Being. This 'eco-existential deportation', which is what transportation really ought to be called, removes one from everything local including one's self. The self you see, like the universe, is a local  entity. It is not over there, but emphatically here. Moreover, this self is not just local but immediate too. This means that you are not 'then' or 'hence' but, again, like the universe, emphatically now. The act of transport removes you from this here and now by infecting your bodymind with an absence. This absence is the removal from your own locomotive force which pumps blood around the body and ignites the heart and mind. This removal and absence then removes one from oneself through the simple dismissal of the body. One becomes an apparition, a ghost not so much in the machine but of it. The engine of the body, the heart, is displaced and replaced (and thus weakened and contaminated) by a mechanical engine that transports you. One no longer becomes 'important' as significant and meaningful since your importing quality - the bodymind - has been displaced by a transporting medium. This transporting medium, for its removal of yourself from yourself (effectively a miniaturization of the self), is thus as good as a drug, specifically some kind of anasthaetic that numbs and sedates simply through the sedentary and the non-moving body being moved through space. Moreover, man's Memory (which has emerged through aboriginal orientation and the natural navigation of the land) deteriorates. The narcotic of being carried (psycho-physically) - in this instant by Civilization, Progress, and Science - induces a stupor in the animal, and it this stupor - through the loss of Heart, the loss of Memory, and the resultant loss of Mind - that has railroaded man into a way of life that becomes evermore stupefying, stupid, and addictive.