“We want to go faster and faster because we don’t think anything is happening during that time,” he said. “One could put it quite politically: travel today is a condition of advanced capitalism. Time spent on an airplane is opportunity passed because you could be doing other things, like making money.” Ingold, who teaches at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, has written extensively about the role of movement in human life, and he told me: “Life is a movement that carries on in real time, and it’s something to value.”
