As a setting for majority rule culture, Barney suggests that technology tends to make moral questions, including the question of what a decent life consists in, almost impossible because they as of now give an answer to the question: a great life is one that includes the use of increasingly more technology. Faust selling his soul to the villain as an end-result of control over the physical world is also frequently deciphered as an allegory for the appropriation of industrial technology. He hopes to uncover the essence of technology in a path that 'not the slightest bit confines us to a stultified compulsion to push on aimlessly with technology or, what comes to the same thing, to revolt helplessly against it.' Indeed, he promises that 'when we once open ourselves expressly to the essence of technology, we wind up surprisingly taken into a liberating claim.