People on rolling stairs. Up and down... Is it necessary? Why man is so addicted to technology? Man discovers, invents and creates because he needs to adapt the world to his needs, to his imagination, transforming nature in culture, like other animals do. But for realizing his desires man needs, first, to eat, to drink, to respire... as other animals do. “Between a work of art or ten thousand men die of hunger which is more important? In fact, as the respondents were, in one way or another, almost all artists, they defended the thesis that humanity's spiritual healing could only be found in art, but failed to reach consensus on the nature of healing and arguments to be submitted for parallel action. [...] One of them said that life was the greatest, the only true work of art. Another voice objected with conviction that it was not art but the hunger approached the men. [...] They settled in a statement presented more or less in these terms: that the current times corresponded to an expected period of impatience, revolt and disgrace. But the longed-for Messiah who still hoped not glimpsed on the horizon.”
Robert Musil, “L'Homme sans qualités”