The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon. Specialization neatly hides our implication in all that is done on our
... See moreMichael Pollan • ‘Cooked’: A DIY Manifesto
From this point on, growth was not just good, but the primary aim of political and social systems. We all know now where that has taken us, but some saw it early, including the economist and retail analyst Victor Lebow in 1955: Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of
... See moreBrian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
L’Occident a chassé de nos vies la liberté, la joie et la responsabilité, pour y substituer la convoitise, la compétition, le chacun pour soi, la grisaille, les dettes, McDonald’s et GlaxoSmithKline. L’ère du consommateur offre certes du confort, mais peu de libertés.
Tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
“To 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
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