“He turns wooden utensils in a lathe for exercise, and fancies he can turn men in the same manner. He has no great fondness for poetry, and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespeare. His house is warmed and lighted by steam. He is one of those who prefer the artificial to the natural in most things, and think the mind of man omnipotent. He has a great contempt for out-of-door prospects, for green fields and trees, and is for ever referring everything to Utility.” - W. Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)

Sure does sound like my man here is describing your average techbro. Classical liberalism has reified itself into such a naturalized static state of existence that your layman capitalist isn’t even aware of his own history yet alone the true reasons why civilization’s progress has stalled. WILD.