One of the ideal narratives of modernity was the shift toward a reasonable economy where citizens are given opportunities to express themselves and used their knowledge/skills for technology advancements without any wars and conflicts. Both Henry Ford and Smelly Butler wrote their text based on this approach. In his text about his life and work, Henry Ford described that any creation of machines and technologies are “not a single hand operation” (Ford, pg 42). He refused to recognize that there are impossibilities (Ford, pg 41), but it requires a whole team to make something amazing, such as the automobile. In Smelly Butler’s perspective, the idea of war hurts the pride of the nation; therefore there needs to be a stop in the production of
