Part of what keeps us bound together in a destructive society is desire. Whatever society produces, the more complex and dependent on the division and mass of labor that thing is, the more that thing is laden with a constellation of values that is spread across the society that produces it.
If one wants big and heavy things, like shelter and transportation, one has to assent to the values that come with its ultimate productive process, whether one likes it or not. It takes a lot of power, and a lot of energy, to change the nature of society, power and energy that is already bound up within the production process.
