I mean I suppose one could take the two elements apart too, and look at each separately - either just 'fast cars,' or 'fast women...'
Though just what is a 'fast woman' anyway; is this something like a woman flying around on a broomstick like in the old days of the Salem Witch Trials...
Why does the woman have to be 'constant' and the man yet not need to have something to recommend himself as being a thing worth sticking around for?
Well anyway, these are just common phrases that people use that can cover a lot of territory.
And fast cars are bad because - they are dangerous, they are unnecessary, they are frivolous, decadent, expensive, mindless testosterone things, contribute to carbon pollution...?
Okay of course I'm sure I know what the morally problematic angles are on a simple level. 'Gross' materialism is an understandably bad way of carrying on your life. Pure aspiration to material things for the sake of envy of material possessions is destructive in so many ways.
But then there is also art and authentic culture and social style and human thematic resonance.
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Why is the inner spirit, the cultural and/or social soul, and the personal being, necessarily a separate thing from the things we, as humans make, and use in our lives?
No - the things which cause moral failure are different from the items, even the expensive and rather frivolous, items of material modern existence. A lack of respect for naked beauty is the one sure sign of real moral deterioration, in my view.
Undervaluing things, and overvaluing ideology and dogma, is morally transgressing; that's what turns things bad inside of someone. And their soul stops breathing and stops living, and then a vestige only of human energy lingers on, pretending to be a human being, and pretending to be alive.
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