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Ill With Want
Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of liber... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend on It
our individual whims and wants have become fetishised, with ever more ludicrous business models evolving to meet and raise our Consumer desires and expectations. Many of us are working ever harder, while having ever more debt and fewer savings. What is more, this process has intensified even as our actual needs – for healthy ecosystems, coherent so
... See moreBrian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
With most of our basic needs taken care of, businesses increasingly try to create needs, feeding the illusion that more stuff we don’t really need—more possessions, the latest fashion, a more youthful body—will make us happy and whole.