12-11-2009, 06:16 AM
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Insane
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Growing pains ?
Utopia Postponed - Ascent of Humanity
One day people will wake up. They will call this: "the age of total insanity". Want to say that other industrial nations - had the same problems once ? And how "good" they are now ? People are still slaves to the machine. Development - destruction. In some places people just live. No holidays or workdays, just life. Until someone decides to help them develop, and soon they are working like crazy to survive. In some death factory. The resources are not infinite. New inventions will not save us. Not even free electricity, using some magic reactor.
http://www.primitivism.com/facets-myth.htm
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"I can remember vividly sitting at the dinner table arguing with my father about progress, using upon him all the experience and wisdom I had gathered at the age of fifteen. Of course we live in an era of progress, I said, just look at cars -- how clumsy and unreliable and slow they were in the old days, how sleek and efficient and speedy they are now.
He raised an eyebrow, just a little. And what has been the result of having all these wonderful new sleek and efficient and speedy cars? he asked. I was taken aback. I searched for a way to answer. He went on.
How many people die each year as a result of these speedy cars, how many are maimed and crippled? What is life like for the people who produce them, on those famous assembly lines, the same routinized job hour after hour, day after day, like Chaplin's film? How many fields and forests and even towns and villages have been paved over so that these cars can get to all the places they want to get to -- and park there? Where does all the gasoline come from, and at what cost, and what happens when we burn it and exhaust it?
Before I could stammer out a response -- thankfully -- he went on to tell me about an article written on the subject of progress, a concept I had never really thought of, by one of his Cornell colleagues, the historian Carl Becker, a man I had never heard of, in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, a resource I had never come across. Read it, he said."
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One day there will be so many houses, that people will be bored and will go live in tents. "Why are you living in tents ? Are there not enough houses ?" "Yes there are, but we play this Economy game"
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