Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2
โTo lose sight of the beauty of ideas and of hope and opportunity, and to frustrate the right to be needed, is to be at the dying edge.
To be a part of a throwaway mentality that discards goods and ideas, that discards principles and law, that discards persons and families, is to be at the dying edge.
To be at the leading edge of consumption, affluen
... See morePeople know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of the mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineerโs slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
Hermann Hesse โข The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
Honesty requires that we each recognize the need to limit procreation, consumption, and waste, but equally we must radically reduce our expectations that machines will do our work for us or that therapists can make us learned or healthy. The only solution to the environmental crisis is the shared insight of people that they would be happier if they
... See moreIvan Illich โข Tools for Conviviality
๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ด๐บ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด. ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ. ๐๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ
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