On Cynical Manipulation, Self-Sufficiency and the Value of Human Death
If nothing else, I hope that this essay reveals the immense power that a single Calvin and Hobbes comic strip can have.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
The Illusion of Progress
One can only imagine what Henry David Thoreau would think of modern society. He would see a world of superhighways connecting suburbs to the cities, on which people drove their gasoline powered cars from home to work and vice versa. He would see a world of industrialized agriculture, of tractors and trucks, of hydrocarbon based fertilizers and pesticides. He would see a world of corporate advertising, of mass media, of consumer culture. He would be, I think, rather appalled.